kiddlywink

Possibly related to tiddlywink or kiddywink.

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kiddlywink (plural kiddlywinks)

1. (Cornwall, historical) A small pub only licensed to sell beer or cider.

   Synonym: kiddly

   • 1974, Marjorie Watson, Heir to Polventon, →ISBN:

     "And we have a notion how much he had to drink in the kiddlywink."

   • 1980, John Hugh Norton Mason, West country walks and legends, Academy Chicago Pub

     Bessie's Cove was said to be named after a Bessie Burrows who kept a small 'kiddlywink' inn on the cliff-top.

   • 2011, Patricia Gaffney, Lily, Open Road Media, →ISBN:

     There's a kiddlywink there where my crew and l have spent many a happy hour.”

2. (historical) A small village shop.
3. (humorous) A child.
   • 2007, Ally Blake, Millionaire to the Rescue, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 35:

     'My sweet kiddlywinks, we are going on a car trip into the mountains and there we 'll stay in Danny's house in the rainforest.'

   • 2013, Anna Kemp, The Great Brain Robbery, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     Frankie wasn't sure he liked being called a kiddlywink but, as the air fizzed around him, he felt his worries dissolve like a spoonful of sherbet

   • 2014, Andrea Ashworth, Once in a House on Fire: Picador Classic, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN:

     'Well, kiddlywinks' –she touched her face round the edges– 'we've somebody coming tos ee us. Tomorrow, first thing.'

• (small pub; small village shop): kiddle-a-wink, kiddleywink

• (small village shop): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary