Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A game in which players try to snap small disks into a cup by pressing them on the edge with a larger disk.
Wiktionary
- n. games A game in which the objective is to shoot winks into a cup or at a target by flicking them with a shooter (nowadays called a squidger) from a surface.
- n. A competitive partnership game in which the objective is to gain an advantage over opponents by squopping opponent winks and by squidging friendly winks into a pot.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Same as tiddledywinks.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
Etymologies
- Possibly dialectal tiddly, little + wink. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I would've rather stayed home and played tiddlywinks sometimes," he said.”
“Otherwise I suggest you go down the street and see if there is somebody you can play jacks or tiddlywinks with.”
“Their objective all along has been to destroy his presidency, and the next two years are going to make the first two look like they were playing tiddlywinks.”
The Huffington Post: Jacob Heilbrunn: The Plot Against Barack Obama
“It had rained, and tiny frogs leaped across the dirt road like tiddlywinks.”
“He would take me, the wordikins and the tiddlywinks and hauntings and the memories of fornication and the pleasures of floorboards, and suck them out of the ghost until the ghost was a ghost of itself.”
“At the end, viewers are urged to go to a website, www. spotsvstripes.com, to join a team and compete in any real-life game they like – from tiddlywinks to crazy golf and keepy-uppy – and to build up national totals online for each side.”
The Guardian: Cadbury set to reveal 2012 Olympics sponsorship ads
“After years of watching tiddlywinks, let's not forget what a good game of chess looks like.”
Emanuel Backtracks From 'Trigger' Comments; Dem Says CoS Made "Hell Of A Mistake"
“Don't forget tiddlywinks and Ping-Pong," he says.”
“Next week, maybe we can watch people play tiddlywinks to decide who gets to see a screening of The Love Guru.”
The Huffington Post: Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains: Shuffle Bored!
“I don't know how the chess club feels about players of tiddlywinks," he said.”
The Wall Street Journal: Justices Joust Over Christian Group's Rights
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tiddlywinks’.
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A List Of The Cutest Words Ever Created!
HEE OK LETS DO IT! I'm v.v. excited! (with thanks to whichbe, Lampbane, bilby, effigy, frogapplause, and fredrx!)
piggy, toesy woesies, snurfle, wiggly, chomp, lewispoo, dobby, dunderhead, cupcake, mumbo jumbo, wigglebop, scuttle and 99 more...
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Playthings and Toys
have fun!
battledore, beanbag, bicycle, Big Wheel, crayons, boomerang, cap gun, doll, kite, jigsaw puzzle, hula hoop, jack-in-the-box and 66 more...
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nominative case collection
wine stopper, pyre, roster, hamper, moleskin, elastic, pinnacle, facsimile, nook, plonk, contortionist, dismay and 342 more...
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Fun Words
Words that have funny meanings or are just fun to say.
kumquat, chimichanga, sarsparilla, rutabaga, rumpus, flummox, encrusted, prestidigitation, pomegranate, preposterous, dentiloquist, sepulchre and 323 more...
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Favorite Words
i love words.
ricochet, clavicle, etymology, equivocate, decoupage, dillydally, effervescent, flimflam, haberdashery, hullabaloo, debacle, juxtapose and 210 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 436 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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Wissavix's Words
fuck, cocksucker, floozie, wiggins, verbose, verboten, vixen, tiddlywinks, exsanguinate, exacerbate, ostentatious, flabbergasted and 54 more...
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dictionary's list
minuet, xenarthrans, lego, universal, hail, entertainer, musical, ewe, gain, interest, collie, accent and 45 more...
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Don't Toy With Me
Highlighting the best toy names ever.
nerf, gak, smud, floam, weebles, ack ack, wee waffle, pogs, tiddlywinks, magna doodle, jacks, slinky and 5 more...
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inherently funny words
Some words are just funny with or without context.
bumplefeist, arsecockle, dandiprat, lubberwort, scuppernong, piffle, brouhaha, bibcock, tiddlywinks
Tweets
Looking for tweets for tiddlywinks.

inktree Other nations are before us
With their Sputniks and Explorers
What can confidence restore us?
Naught but tiddlywinks.
On the fields of Eton,
Former foes were beaten.
But today all patriots play
This sport which needs such grit and concentration.
Through this game of skill and power
England knows her finest hour,
And her stronghold, shield and tower
Must be tiddlywinks. May 4, 2009