tiddlywinks

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (also, attributive, plural, plural-only) A competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs (each called a tiddlywink or wink) as possible into a container (the pot) by pressing on their edges with a larger disc (a shooter or squidger), causing them to jump up from the surface on which they are placed.
2. (figuratively, plural, plural-only) Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.

Verb

third-person singular simple present indicative of tiddlywink

tiddlywink

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Conceptos

juego de la pulga

la pulga

Sinónimos

marbles

Traducciones

vlooienspel

jeu de puce

Flohhüpfspiel

Flohspiel

giuoco della pulce

jôgo da pulga

jogo da pulga

gioco della pulce

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈtɪdəlɪwɪŋks/

Etimología (Inglés)

From tiddlywink + -s, possibly from tiddly (“(informal) little, tiny”) + wink (“blinking of one eye”), perhaps borrowed from tiddlywink, etymology 1 (“unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop; game played using dominoes”, etc.). The game 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. Tiddlywinks is the preferred modern spelling; the earliest known use of this spelling dates from 1894.