"tiddlywinks" meaning in All languages combined

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          "ref": "[1890 January 18, M. D., “Queries. [Kiddlewink.]”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, General Readers, etc., volume IX (7th Series), number 212, London: Published […] [b]y John C. Francis, →OCLC, page 48, column 2",
          "text": "Can any of your correspondents inform me what is the derivation of the word \"kiddlewink,\" or \"tiddledy winks\"? A friend tells me in the Midland Counties it denotes a house where beer is sold without a licence. Lately a game has been introduced here bearing the name of \"Tiddledywinks.\"]",
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          "ref": "1894 August, Henrietta O[ctavia] Barnett, “The Home or the Barrack for the Children of the State”, in The Contemporary Review, volume LXVI, London: Isbister and Company […], →OCLC, page 246",
          "text": "Recreation rooms were provided for both boys and girl, and the long winter evenings were anything but dreary, for when school was done and work over the children gathered in the brilliantly lit, hot-pipe-heated rooms and played draughts, bagatelle, lotto, or tiddly-winks.",
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          "ref": "1926 September, “The Bookman’s Guide to Fiction”, in John Farrar, editor, The Bookman, volume LXIV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, page 90, column 1",
          "text": "Mantrap—Sinclair Lewis—Harcourt, Brace. The great realist plays an amusing game of tiddlywinks in the north woods.",
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        "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."
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        "(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."
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          "word": "skyfiespel"
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          "sense": "competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container",
          "word": "挑圆片"
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          "word": "kirppupeli"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "jeu de puces"
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          "sense": "competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container",
          "word": "Flohhüpfspiel"
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          "word": "bolha-játék"
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          "word": "gioco delle pulci"
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          "word": "弾き"
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          "word": "blusiņu spēle"
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
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          "word": "loppe-spel"
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          "tags": [
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          "word": "skakanje buha"
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          "word": "blchy"
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          "word": "bolhice"
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          "word": "juego de la pulga"
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          "word": "pulga saltarina"
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          "word": "loppspel"
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          "_dis1": "94 6",
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "hra v blíšky",
          "sense": "competitive game in which the objective is to flick as many small discs as possible into a container",
          "word": "гра в блі́шки"
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        "(figuratively) Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity."
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      "tags": [
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