tiddlywinks
noun
a game played on a flat surface, in which players attempt to snap small plastic disks into a cup by pressing the edges of the disks with larger ones.
tiddledywinks
-
a variation of
tiddlywinks.
Example Sentences
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It seemed unlikely that tourists were swiping them as souvenirs or that many people could easily use them as tiddledywinks or Frisbees.
From Time Magazine Archive
I fear to play tiddledywinks lest my hour may resume the guise of a hag.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
I still class fishing and golf together with tiddledywinks, and eschew all three as thoughtfully as I avoid bazaars and "crushes" given by the ladies of both sexes.
From Caves of Terror by Talbot Mundy
I was sorry to miss such an evening, and think I could forego tiddledywinks with a fair degree of amiability if, instead, I could hear such a man talk.
From Reveries of a Schoolmaster by Francis B. Pearson
From the first they were comrades, even when comradeship meant the poring over a Mother Goose story-book, or mastering the intricacies of a game of tiddledywinks.
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
