Winks has a vocabulary and subculture all its own. For instance, you might overhear at a tournament "I can't pot my nurdled wink, so I'll piddle you free and you can boondock a red. But if Sunshine gromps the double, I'll lunch a blue next time." In English this translates to "My wink is too close to the cup to pot it, so instead, I'll gently shoot you out from under the pile and you can shoot an opponent's red wink off the table. But if Sunshine (a winker) captures two of our winks with only one of his, I'll pot an opponent's blue wink (sometimes a useful strategy) on my next turn."

The Lexicon of Tiddlywinks, compiled by Rick Tucker, documents the words of winkdom from 1955 to the present day.

Also check out tiddlywinks as it is known in many other languages.

Many thanks to those who have contributed to the lexicon, including Richard Moore, Charles Relle, Jon Mapley, and Fred Shapiro.

In this edition, I have started to include exemplary citations for some entries, in much the same manner as in the Oxford English Dictionary. However, I need your help! I would greatly appreciate your uninhibited comments on the definitions, your suggestions for additions and improvements, etc. I particularly need help in identifying Briticisms vs. Americanisms. Even though I have copyrighted this, I am permitting members of NATwA, ETwA, and ScotTwA to reproduce it for free distribution.

On to nonalphabetic entries of the Lexicon.