tiddleywink

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A form of tiddlywink — An unlicensed beerhouse or pawnshop.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

nountiddleywink (plural tiddleywinks)

plural tiddleywinks

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tiddlywink.

    And then you feel all round your pocket and fish out that absurd little thing, all by itself, sticking on the end of your finger like a tiddleywink. The shop-girl sniffs. She spots immediately that it's your last threepence in the world.

    2004, Anthony Stewart, George Orwell, Doubleness and the Value of Decency, page 74
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APA

tiddleywink. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tiddleywink

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Chicago

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