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Books about Winking Words and Their Etymologies

[<W] Sidney J. Baker. The Australian language. 1945. Pages 109, 163, 270  
[<W] John Carroll et al. The American heritage word frequency book. 1971. Pages 475, 732  
[W] The Century dictionary and cyclopedia. 1911. Volume 9. (tiddledewinks, squap) 1911 edition has 1909 Century dictionary supplement bound in <t>
[W] John Ciardi. A browser's dictionary. © 1980. Pages 385­86  
[W] Conkey Co. The American encyclopaedic dictionary. 1895. Volume SUP­Z (wink)  
[>W] Paul Dickson. Words. © 1982, Delacorte Press. Chapter "Game names", pages 222 (boondock), 225 (nurdle), 226 (squidger, squop) <o>
  Dickson's Word Treasury. © 1982, 1992. Page 125 (boondocking), 127 (nurdling), 128 (squidger, squop)  
[FW] English-Afrikaans dictionary (translation of "tiddlywinks" as "saltodiskoj" ("disc­game"))  
[W] Stuart B. Flexner. I hear America talking. 1976. Pages 125, 127, 328  
[W] Julian Franklyn. A dictionary of rhyming slang  
[W] Funk and Wagnalls. 1895. (tiddledy winks)  
[W]

James Orchard Halliwell. A dictionary of archaic and provincial words. 1855 (originally 1847). (tidliwink, squap)

Fifth edition. 1901.

  • Page 790: SQUAP. To sit down idly. Somerset
  • Page 791: SQUIDGE. To squeeze. I. Wight.
  • Page 873: TIDLIWINK. A beer-shop. West. It is called in some places kidliwink.
  
[W] Fred W. P. Jago. Glossary of the Cornish dialect. 1882  
[W] Daniel Lyons, editor. American dictionary of the English language. 1905, P. F. Collier & Son.  
[W] James Maitland. The American slang dictionary. © 1891 ("the name of a game" for "tiddlywink") <t>
[FW] Eduard Muret. Muret encyclopaedic English­German and German­English dictionary. August 1897. [PF3640.M8] Part first (English­German), second half (L­Z), page 2199 ("tiddl(e)ywink" -s) <c>
[>W] Oxford English dictionary (OED). 1933 and supplements, Oxford University Press. Volume [TBD] page 719 ("squappe"), 743 ("squidge"); volume [TBD], page 10 ("tiddlywink(s)"), ++<c>
  Oxford English dictionary supplement (OEDS). Volume IV, Se­Z. 1986. (squidge, squidger, squop, squopper, tiddler, tiddlywink, tiddlywinker, tiddlywinks, triple crown, wink, winker, winking, winks) <c>
[W] Eric Partridge. A dictionary of slang & unconventional English. 7th edition. 1970. Pages 818 (squab), 883­84 (tiddlywink), 890 (titley), 1334 (play tiddlywinks), 1468 (tiddly wink), 1513 (wink), 454 and 1235­36 (kidlywink). Refers to a relevant letter from Moe to Partridge <t>
[>W] Eric Partridge. A dictionary of slang & unconventional English. 8th edition, edited by Paul Beale. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London. ©1984. [PE3721.P3] Pages ix ("Tiddlywinks" in list), 1397 (appendix devoted to tiddlywinks jargon, by Cyril Edwards); also throughout. ++<c>
[W] Eric Partridge. Origins: a short etymological dictionary of modern English. © 1966, 4th edition.  
[<W] K. C. Phillips. Westcountry words and ways. 1976. Page 72  
[<W] Random House. American dictionary. 1967. (dictionary of 30,000 words)  
[W] Random House dictionary of the English language. © 1966. Page 1483 (tiddlywinks, wink from winch)  
[<FW] Paul Robert. Dictionnaire alphabetique et analogique de la langue francais. 1970. Volume 5, page 539 (puce)  
[W] A. H. Smith, J. L. N. O'Loughlin, editors. Odham's dictionary of the English language. 1965  
[<W] Susan Kelz Sperling. Poplollies and bellibones, a celebration of lost words. © 1977. Pages 59, 101 ("KIDLIIWINK"), 109 ("TIDLIWINK") <t>
[W] Webster's new international dictionary. 2nd edition.  
[W] Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961. Pages 2216 (squidge), 2390 (tiddledywinks), 2622 (wink); also (chip)  
[W] Webster's universal dictionary. 1904. (tiddledywinks/tiddlywinks)  
  Webster's empire dictionary. 1904  
  Webster's imperial dictionary. 1904  
[W] Ernest Weekley. An etymological dictionary of modern English. 1921. Volume 2  
[<FW] J. C. Wells. Esperanto­English dictionary. 1969. Page 394 (saltodiskoj)  
[>W] Joseph Wright, editor. English dialect dictionary. 1905, reprinted 1970. Volume 6, page 137 (tiddlywink). Volume 5, pages 709 (squidge), 704 (squap). Volume 6, page 173 of supplement (squallop) <c>
[W] Thomas Wright. Dictionary of obsolete & provincial English. 1857, reprinted 1967. Volume 2 (squap)  
 
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