tiddlywinks
IPA: tˈɪdɫɪwɪŋks
noun
- (tiddlywinks, also attributively) 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.
- (figuratively) Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.
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Examples of "tiddlywinks" in Sentences
- I'll leave the twiddling to the tiddlywinks.
- There is no need to quash tiddlywinks nor ETwA onWikipedia.
- If it didn't or played tiddlywinks at world level then it would be.
- Tiddlywinks does not have a comparable level of complexity to chess.
- These players are now looking to revive university tiddlywinks in the USA.
- Google turns up nothing linking a Jon Idler to tiddlywinks or bodybuilding.
- I don't think tiddlywinks is the national sport of quite so many countries.
- The claim that tiddlywinks is comparable to chess in complexity seems spurious.