tiddley n.
1. a small glass of beer.
Illus. Police News 15 July 4/2: I’ll go and relieve my mate Tony, so that he can come down and have his tiddley. | ||
Illus. Police News 9 Apr. 11/3: His Honour: Was the barmaid drunk? Defendant: Certainly not. [...] Plaintiff: Go on, now; you know she’d had a little drop of tiddley (Laughter) . | ||
Sun. Times (Perth) 4 Nov. 4/8: And squatters [...] / Blow the froth from tanner tiddleys. | ||
Truth (Sydney) 2 July 1/4: Not so bad to pay a tanner for a pint, but it’s too much for a ‘tiddley’. | ||
Dryblower’s Verses 60: But grant, O Satan, as I scorch, / A tiddley now and then. | ‘Pints That I’ve Refused’||
Marsh 347: Have your tiddley, by all means; it’ll do you good. |
2. (Aus.) a threepenny bit [the smallness of the coin].
Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. |
3. see tiddleywink n.2
4. see tiddly n.