spillikins
IPA: spˈɪɫʌkʌnz
noun
- A game in which players attempt to remove flat, carved sticks of ivory or wood (the individual spillikins of meaning 1) from a scattered pile without disturbing any stick other than the one currently being removed.
- Alternative spelling of spillikins [A game in which players attempt to remove flat, carved sticks of ivory or wood (the individual spillikins of meaning 1) from a scattered pile without disturbing any stick other than the one currently being removed.]
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Examples of "spillikins" in Sentences
- Monique: Glad you mentioned "pick-up sticks" for I had completely forgotten to mention the name of the game aka "spillikins"!
- Monique: Glad you mentioned "pick-up sticks" for I had completely forgotten to mention the name of the game (aka "spillikins")!
- Well, "said the captain, setting the course for Gentian's Star and clicking on the long-range detectors," we'll play for spillikins.
- It's called "Lustige Jagd" or "Chasse Joyeuse" and the instructions are in German and French; we called the game pick up sticks or spillikins.
- At home there were card games to organize and billiard games and spillikins for the children and a few more energetic games, like hide-and-seek.
- The whole fabric that he had been building, like a game of spillikins in which one frail little bone is hooked on top of another, was dashed to the ground.
- I throw in this explanation of "spillikins" to fill up a somewhat long and painful pause during which Cai and 'Bias without speech slowly questioned one another.
- A bomb has torn open the side; there is still a birdcage hanging in what was presumably the sitting-room, but the rest of the house looks like nothing so much as a bunch of spillikins suspended in mid air.
- Mrs Bosenna, seated at the head of her polished mahogany table and engaged upon a game of "spillikins" -- which is a solitary trial of skill, and consists in lifting, one by one, with a delicate ivory hook a mass of small ivory pieces tangled as intricately as the bones in a kingfisher's nest -- showed no more than a pretty surprise at the intrusion.