tiddledies, choose one:
a) the small caps which lower over the upright columns supporting harp lamp shade holders.
b) a quick snort at the time the sun goes over the yardarm. "Care for a little tiddledies?"
c) intricate scrollwork and rosettes added in the latter stages of building of gothic cathedrals for the purpose of fine-tuning the acoustics.
d) knick-knacks, gewgaws, gimcracks; oddments
e) [from Eastern Papua New Guinean Pidgin English] obnoxious child
f) [Scots] Haggis droppings
g) a fun Mensa game much like tiddlywinks but played with dice.
h) glossy fringes and tassels
i) like Puck, a spirit of mischief (originally Lancastrian dialect).
j) [Old Norse] a practitioner of sleight-of-hand.
k) healthiness lasting into old age, from dialectal 'tid', meaning 'fresh' or 'tender', and OE 'eald', or oldness.
l) [<ME tydle + dye] chips used in a game that evolved into (modern form) 'tiddlywinks'
m) soft flexible ice or chunks of floating ice
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our entrants include themilum, shanks, ASp, Faldage, tsuwm, BranShea, olly, musick, Aramis, Sparteye, TEd, Curuinor, and the UAD*
* Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary
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