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Alternative spellings
The original spelling, starting in 1889, is "Tiddledy-Winks", which was the original trademarked name for the game in the UK and also used in the USA. "Tiddlywinks" is the preferred modern spelling; the earliest known use of this spelling is 1894. The spelling "Tidley Winks" was common in England in the 1930s to late 1940s. Many other spellings are also encountered.
Tiddledy-Winks
Tidley Winks
Tiddley Winks
Noun
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#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.
#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.
Quotations
#* 1890 (Jan. 18): Notes and Queries magazine
#*: Lately a game has been introduced here bearing the name of 'tiddledywinks'.
#* 1891 (Dec. 6): New York Times, Macy's advertisement, page 1
#*: All the newest and most popular games of the season, including ... TIDDLE DE WINKS ...
#* 1892: Journal of Lady Emily (Lytton) Lutyens, as published in A Blessed Girl (1953)
#*: After dinner we all played the most exciting game ever invented, called Tiddleywinks.
#* 1894 (Aug.): Contemporary Review magazine, page 246
#*: For when school was done and work over the children gathered in the brilliantly lit, hot-pipe-heated rooms and played draughts, bagatelle, lotto, or tiddly-winks.
#* 1909: Century Dictionary Supplement
#*: tiddledewinks, n. A trivial game in which the players try to make small counters jump into a box, by pressing on their edges with another counter.
#* 1922: w:James Joyce|James Joyce, Ulysses
#*: ... parlour games (dominos, halma, tiddledywinks... )
#* 1926 (Sep.): Bookman magazine, page 90
#*: The great realist plays an amusing game of tiddlywinks in the north woods.
#* 1937: w:Eric Partridge|Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconvential English
#*: Tiddlywinks is considered a feeble, futile game.
#* 1957 (Dec. 17): The Times, London
#*: The subtle art of tiddlywinks. Here all depends upon the steady hand, the strong nerve, the experienced eye... Tempers are never lost.
#* 1958: The Observer Saying of the Year, London
#*: We look to tiddlywinks to get us back to the primeval simplicity of life. -- Rev. E. A. Willis
#* 1969 (Sept.): Playboy, page 195
#*: MIT's two saving graces are the tiddlywinks championship of North America and incredible graffiti.
Translations
In most languages other than English, the name of the game translates as "game of the flea". (Exceptions below are Afrikaans (translates to "disc game") and Esperanto ("hop disc").)
Courtesy http://www.tiddlywinks.org/lexicon/tw_in_other_languages.html
Afrikaans: skyfiespel
Croatian: skakanje buha
Danish: loppespil(l)
Dutch: vlooienspel
Esperanto: saltodiskoj
Finnish: kirppupeli, juoksupeli
French: jeu de puce
German: Flohspiel, Flohhüpfspiel
Hungarian: bolha-játék
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Italian: giuoco della pulce
Latvian: blusi�u sp�le
Norwegian: loppe-spel
Polish: pche�ki
Portuguese: jôgo da pulga
Russian: иг�а� в бло��ки (igra v bloshki)
Spanish: juego de la pulga
Swedish: loppspel
Ukrainian: г�а в бл���ки (gra v blishki)
See also
A complete tiddlywinks lexicon is available at http://www.tiddlywinks.org/lexicon. The best known tiddlywinks terms are:
top2
boondock
Bristol
Carnovsky
gromp
mid2
piddle
pot
squidger
squop
wink
References
1889 (May 15), Trade Marks Journal (UK), Page 476, Class 49, number 85,500: TIDDLEDY-WINKS
Tiddlywinks Lexicon - http://www.tiddlywinks.org/lexicon
Tiddlywinks - http://www.tiddlywinks.org
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