[Ads-l] After 46 Years, Still Further Antedating of "Tiddlywinks"

[Shapiro, Fred]

46 years after my original antedating of the Oxford English Dictionary, an antedating of the name of the game of "tiddlywinks" (see my article, "Confessions of the Antedater"), I have pushed the name of that game back a little further.

tiddlywinks (OED, s.v. tiddlywink 2.b., 1889 [8 Feb.])

1889 Liverpool Daily Post 2 Jan. 1/6 (Newspapers.com)

TIDDLEDY WINKS, SIGMA, HEARTSETTE, &c. ... ELLERBECK BROTHERS, FAMILY STATIONERS. 54, BOLD-STREET, LIVERPOOL.

Fred Shapiro



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