Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun plural See
tiddledewinks . - noun A shop where money is lent on goods without a pawnbroker's license.
- noun A shop where beer is sold without a license.
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- noun A small
disc used intiddlywinks
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Examples
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Shapiro, who studied humanities and science at the Institute, assumed the position and soon discovered that the term tiddlywink had been used much earlier than the Oxford English Dictionary seemed to indicate.
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Shapiro, who studied humanities and science at the Institute, assumed the position and soon discovered that the term tiddlywink had been used much earlier than the Oxford English Dictionary seemed to indicate.
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Those tiddlywink cracker things... but you don't do that, do you, Jehovah Witnesses?
We're All Guys Here Thomas Pluck 2011
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Let them all these SOB's take their tiddlywink home and go play in their own bathrooms!!
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I'm thinking etsy seller tiddlywink might be glad to have this gone from her house.
September 2009 2009
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I'm thinking etsy seller tiddlywink might be glad to have this gone from her house.
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A ten, two fives, another ten, two singles, a quarter, two nickels and a tiddlywink dime.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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A ten, two fives, another ten, two singles, a quarter, two nickels and a tiddlywink dime.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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A ten, two fives, another ten, two singles, a quarter, two nickels and a tiddlywink dime.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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There was a dull, thudding boom, and the i cover bounced up like a tiddlywink.
Step into Chaos Shatner, William 1999
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