Citations:tiddlywinks

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1891 December 6, Macy’s advertisement, The New York Times, page 1:
 * All the newest and most popular games of the season, including TIDDLE DE WINKS
 * 1) * 1892: Journal of Lady Emily (Lytton) Lutyens, as published in A Blessed Girl (1953)
 * After dinner we all played the most exciting game ever invented, called Tiddleywinks.
 * 1) * 1909, Century Dictionary Supplement:
 * tiddledewinks, n. A trivial game in which the players try to make small counters jump into a box, by pressing on their edges with another counter.
 * 1) * 1937: Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconvential English
 * Tiddlywinks is considered a feeble, futile game.
 * 1) * 1957 December 17, The Times, London:
 * The subtle art of tiddlywinks. Here all depends upon the steady hand, the strong nerve, the experienced eye... Tempers are never lost.
 * 1) * 1958, The Observer Saying of the Year, London:
 * We look to tiddlywinks to get us back to the primeval simplicity of life. — Rev. E. A. Willis
 * 1) * 1969 September, Playboy, page 195:
 * MIT's two saving graces are the tiddlywinks championship of North America and incredible graffiti.
 * 1)  Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.
 * We look to tiddlywinks to get us back to the primeval simplicity of life. — Rev. E. A. Willis
 * 1) * 1969 September, Playboy, page 195:
 * MIT's two saving graces are the tiddlywinks championship of North America and incredible graffiti.
 * 1)  Especially in the form to play tiddlywinks: a meaningless or unimportant activity.