tiddlywink
An unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshopAn unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop.
Meaning
4 senses(UK, archaic, dialectal, obsolete, slang)An unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop.
(Cockney, UK, archaic, obsolete, slang)An alcoholic drink.
(UK, archaic, obsolete)A game played using dominoes.
(UK, archaic, obsolete)A small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks; (by extension) a similar disc or counter used in other games.
Translations
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Sense 1 (“unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop”) and sense 2 (“alcoholic drink”) are possiblySense 1 (“unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop”) and sense 2 (“alcoholic drink”) are possibly related to tiddly (“(noun) alcoholic beverage; (adjective) somewhat drunk”).
The noun is possibly derived from tiddly (“(informal) little, tiny”) + wink (“blinking of one eye”), perhaps borrowed from etymology 1. The game, now called tiddlywinks, was patented by a British bank clerk, Joseph Assheton Fincher (1863–1900), on 19 October 1889, and the name Tiddledy-Winks trademarked by him the same year.
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Forms
plural: tiddlywinks| Singular | tiddlywink |
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