kiddeliwink n.
1. a village store or small shop, or ale-shop.
![]() | Morn. Chron. (London) 10 July 3/3: The next scene is ‘The Kidleywink,’ ‘a low dirty beer-shop, where the boy- thief squanders and gambles away his ill-gotten gains,’ among the lowest of both sexes. | |
![]() | Dict. of Modern Sl. etc. 56: kiddleliwink a small shop where they retail the commodities of a village store. | |
![]() | Royal Cornwall gaz. 3 July 8/1: A woman named Haynes [...] keeps a ‘kiddlywink’ at Redruth. He has been drinking in her house all day. | |
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![]() | Cornishman 24 Jan. 4/4: This concert they ded [sic] have in a very large room in a kiddly-wink in Flete-street. | |
![]() | Aus. Sl. Dict. 41: Kidley-wink, a small shop. | |
![]() | Cornishman 3 May 6/1: Alty went up to the kiddlywink to have a glass of beer. | |
![]() | Cornishman 1 Apr. 4/2: Lads had to go to the ‘kiddly-wink’ to get their pay, and it was customary to reward the landlord by ordering drinks. | |
![]() | Western Morn. News 28 Mar. 3/2: Kiddly-wink, a beershop. |
2. a promiscuous woman.
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