tiddlywinks

[复] n.[用作单]挑圆片(一种游戏)

发音

UK /ˈtɪdəlɪwɪŋks/
UK /ˈtɪdlɪ-/
US /ˈtɪdliˌwɪŋks/

词形变化

only 复数

别名

tiddledywinks Tiddledy-Winks Tiddley Winks tidley winks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.

    比喻 仅复数
  2. 2.

    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.

    挑圆片

    定语 仅复数
  3. 3.

    plural of tiddlywink

v.
  1. 1.

    third-person singular simple present indicative of tiddlywink

词源

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.

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