tiddlywinks

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"I wish the Congress would stay in their offices and play tiddlywinks or do a Sudoku and just leave us alone."

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  1. plural noun A game in which players try to snap small disks into a cup by pressing them on the edge with a larger disk.

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  • Customers can play tiddlywinks and cards at the 1930s table, or make do and mend at the 1940s table, while being served home-baked goodies by waitresses styled in the fashions from each decade. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • Would you comment please, should kids be confined to playing checkers and tiddlywinks and eschew hockey altogether? —  Progressive Bloggers
  • No more fiddling around with the silver and copper tiddlywinks. —  Boardgame News
  • All MRA's and recovering feminists will have a lot more fun accomplishing real gains in the marriage movement than playing tiddlywinks in the alley. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
  • Trilobite expert, tiddlywinks player, mushroom hunter, poetry enthusiast and ardent lover of the museum, Fortey joined the staff of the paleontology department in 1970. —  The Cranky Professor
 

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  1. Possibly dialectal tiddly, little + wink.
 

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