tiddlywinks
pronunciation
How to pronounce tiddlywinks in British English:
UK [ˈtɪdliwɪŋks]
How to pronounce tiddlywinks in American English:
US [ˈtɪdliˌwɪŋks]
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- Noun:
- a game in which players try to flip plastic disks into a cup by pressing them on the side sharply with a larger disk
Word Origin
- tiddlywinks (n.)
- children's tile-flipping game, 1857, probably an arbitrary formation from baby talk, but perhaps from slang tiddly-wink "unlicensed drink shop" (1844), from slang tiddly "a drink, drunk."