tiddley

#56@Stephen: He is covering Roshambo and Celebrity tiddley winks, for the alternate Olympics.

IGD: Padres @ Giants (22 Aug 08) 2008

You can charge him with playing tiddley-winks in the High Street for all I care.

When Eight Bells Toll MacLean, Alistair, 1922-1987 1966

I ought to have got this place all tiddley before you arrived, but it's such a pity to waste the light. '

The Breaking Wave Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1955

Mr. Belamy Tabby is singing "Hi tiddley hi ti, hi, ti, hi! _"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 Various

'When you were a tiddley-om-pom, and I was a thingummajig.'

The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

Shall I ever forget the way you used to knock them with "Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay"? '

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

Yet, twenty-five years ago, so I've been told by old boys who were lads about town in those days, she was knocking them cold at the Tivoli in a double act called 'Fun in a Tea-Shop', in which she wore tights and sang a song with a chorus that began, 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay'.

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

There are some things a chappie's mind absolutely refuses to picture, and Aunt Julia singing 'Rumpty-tiddley-umpty-ay' is one of them.

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

Golf had hardly come in, and when one wasn't playing cricket, and the spilliken set had been mislaid, and tiddley-winks was voted too rough, a couple of sets or so was rather fun.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 26th, 1914 Various 1898

I has a tiddley in the morning, like every man as is a man, to keep out the fog; then I has a Vermouth before lunch, and a drop of something short after, just to oil the works like -- and that's the bloomin 'lot.

Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux Eug��ne Brieux 1895