Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. a drink, usu. a spirit rather than beer or wine.

1880		D.W. Barrett Life and Work among Navvies 40: I’m goin’ to get a tiddley wink of pig’s ear.
1892		Illus. Police News 24 Dec. 4/1: ‘Chippy after the “tiddley”,’ remarked The Howler, sagely. [...] ‘Why,’ explained Silas, ‘you’re queer after the liquor you drank, not being used to it’.
1909		J. Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era.
1913		H. Champion ‘Wotcher my old Brown Son’ 🎵 Come and have a ‘tiddly’ at the old Brown Bear.
1914		Sport (Adelaide) 4 Dec. 5/3: As he only had a sprat he had to have a tiddley on his own.
1931		H. Champion ‘The Old Red Lion’ 🎵 Don’t have a tiddley at the fountain, friend, / Pop into the Old Red Lion.
1935		A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks.
1944		Maurer & Baker ‘“Aus.” Rhyming Argot’ in AS XIX:3.
1960, 1975		Wentworth & Flexner DAS 648/3: tiddlywink, tiddly – drink; drunk.
1971		J. Jones Rhy. Cockney Sl.
1981		P. Wright Cockney Dialect and Sl. 103: tiddlywink ‘drink.’.
1998		C. Fitzpatrick ‘Gower ’98’ on Sussex University Canoe Club 🌐 So after a few tiddly winks we jumped in our relevant trouble and fuss back to the campsite to get elephant’s trunk.
2002		Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 tiddly wink: a drink.

2. a Chinese person [Chink n. (1)].

2000		J.J. Connolly Layer Cake 179: Relax, son, it’s only the flying tiddly-wink and his blazing moped.
2011		J.J. Connolly Viva La Madness 292: ‘And you got a tiddywink to blame.’ ‘Japanese aren’t chinks, Sonny’.