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Definition of tiddlywink in English: tiddlywink(US tiddledywink) noun ˈtɪdlɪˌwɪŋkˈtidlēˌwiNGk 1treated as singular A game in which small plastic counters are flicked into a central receptacle by being pressed on the edge with a larger counter. 挑圆片（一种以大筹码用力压小塑料筹码的边缘，使之跳入中央大容器的游戏） Example sentencesExamples - We might as well have been playing tiddlywinks.
- Continuing from Gonzo's piece here, I thought I'd note Mark Devenport's article on Northern Ireland's national sport, and I'm not talking football, rugby, Gaelic or even tiddlywinks.
- I picked up a few bumps and bruises but we are not playing tiddlywinks.
- Whether it's your first game or your last one or a game of table tennis or tiddlywinks, you want to win.
- ‘When I was in my early twenties,’ Shapiro said, ‘I was on the tiddlywinks team at MIT, and wasn't very good, but I became the town historian of tiddlywinks.’
- We hate to lose, and we don't like drawing - you should see our guys play tiddlywinks.
- ‘I was captain of tiddlywinks of my house at school,’ she enthused, ‘perhaps I could be on the programme as well.’
- We think this could improve your performance in everything from tiddlywinks to weightlifting if you do it right.
- They now hope to break world records for playing tiddlywinks and for ‘winking’ a mile in the fastest time.
- For all the easy going humour, Channon's competitive streak dictates that he would find it hard to take in the concept of a friendly game of tiddlywinks.
- One shouldn't expect equal access to everything - I certainly don't - and there are private members' clubs covering everything from underwater basket-weaving to tiddlywinks.
- For some people, however, betting pennies on tiddlywinks or 10 bucks on Pick 4 constitutes a ‘gambling problem.’
- It's the same with football or cricket or tiddlywinks or darts, it's a creation, it's not real.
- They needn't think because they have banned us that we are going to go away and play tiddlywinks.
- If I were going to a place where a hard day is one game of tiddlywinks instead of two, I wouldn't be afraid either.
- If I joined the tiddlywinks association, and start playing darts, or tiddlywinks, or sports, or swimming or whatever, nobody counts me.
- As Sir Alex Ferguson said this week: ‘If we were playing them at tiddlywinks it would still be a great competition’.
- He added: ‘Away from home, we can't even win a game of tiddlywinks, never mind a game of football!
2A counter used in the game of tiddlywinks. （挑圆片游戏中使用的）筹码
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin; perhaps related to tiddly1. The word originally denoted an unlicensed public house, also a game of dominoes. Definition of tiddlywink in US English: tiddlywink(also tiddledywink) nounˈtidlēˌwiNGk 1tiddlywinksA game in which small plastic counters are flicked into a central receptacle by being pressed on the edge with a larger counter. 挑圆片（一种以大筹码用力压小塑料筹码的边缘，使之跳入中央大容器的游戏） Example sentencesExamples - For some people, however, betting pennies on tiddlywinks or 10 bucks on Pick 4 constitutes a ‘gambling problem.’
- If I were going to a place where a hard day is one game of tiddlywinks instead of two, I wouldn't be afraid either.
- ‘I was captain of tiddlywinks of my house at school,’ she enthused, ‘perhaps I could be on the programme as well.’
- For all the easy going humour, Channon's competitive streak dictates that he would find it hard to take in the concept of a friendly game of tiddlywinks.
- We think this could improve your performance in everything from tiddlywinks to weightlifting if you do it right.
- It's the same with football or cricket or tiddlywinks or darts, it's a creation, it's not real.
- He added: ‘Away from home, we can't even win a game of tiddlywinks, never mind a game of football!
- One shouldn't expect equal access to everything - I certainly don't - and there are private members' clubs covering everything from underwater basket-weaving to tiddlywinks.
- As Sir Alex Ferguson said this week: ‘If we were playing them at tiddlywinks it would still be a great competition’.
- They now hope to break world records for playing tiddlywinks and for ‘winking’ a mile in the fastest time.
- ‘When I was in my early twenties,’ Shapiro said, ‘I was on the tiddlywinks team at MIT, and wasn't very good, but I became the town historian of tiddlywinks.’
- We might as well have been playing tiddlywinks.
- Continuing from Gonzo's piece here, I thought I'd note Mark Devenport's article on Northern Ireland's national sport, and I'm not talking football, rugby, Gaelic or even tiddlywinks.
- If I joined the tiddlywinks association, and start playing darts, or tiddlywinks, or sports, or swimming or whatever, nobody counts me.
- Whether it's your first game or your last one or a game of table tennis or tiddlywinks, you want to win.
- We hate to lose, and we don't like drawing - you should see our guys play tiddlywinks.
- I picked up a few bumps and bruises but we are not playing tiddlywinks.
- They needn't think because they have banned us that we are going to go away and play tiddlywinks.
2A counter used in the game of tiddlywinks. （挑圆片游戏中使用的）筹码
OriginMid 19th century: of unknown origin; perhaps related to tiddly. The word originally denoted an unlicensed public house, also a game of dominoes. |