tiddlywinks

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɪdəlɪwɪŋks/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɪdlɪ-/
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• General-American: /ˈtɪdliˌwɪŋks/
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• CMU ARPABET: T IH1 D L IH0 W IH0 NG K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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• CMU ARPABET 2: T IH1 D L IY0 W IH0 NG K S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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.

26 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: skyfiespel — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Chinese Mandarin: 挑圆片 (tiāoyuánpiàn) — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Danish: loppespil — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Dutch: vlooienspel — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Esperanto: saltodiskoj — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Finnish: kirppupeli — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• French: jeu de puces — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• German: Flohhüpfspiel — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• German: Flohspiel — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Hungarian: bolha-játék — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Italian: gioco delle pulci — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Japanese: 弾き — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Japanese: 彈き (hajiki) — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Latvian: blusiņu spēle — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Norwegian: loppe-spel — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Polish: pchełki — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Portuguese: jogo da pulga — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Russian: игра́ в бло́шки (igrá v blóški) — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Serbo-Croatian: skakanje buha — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Slovak: blchy — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Slovene: bolhice — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Spanish: juego de la pulga — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Spanish: pulga — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Spanish: pulga saltarina — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Swedish: loppspel — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container
• Ukrainian: гра в блі́шки (hra v blíšky) — competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container