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teetotum
▪ I. teetotum, n.1 (tiːˈtəʊtəm) Forms: 8 T totum, 8–9 te(-)totum, tee(-)totum, 9 (erron.) te-totum, tee-to-tum; see also totum. [Orig. T totum, formed by prefixing to L. tōtum ‘all, the whole’, its initial T, which stood for it on one of the four sides of the toy (itself in earlier use called simply... Oxford English Dictionary
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Teetotum
A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. The original 1860 version of The Game of Life used a teetotum in order to avoid the die's association with gambling. wikipedia.org
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tetotum
tetotum var. teetotum. Oxford English Dictionary
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Dreidel
The dreidel is a Jewish variant on the teetotum, a gambling toy found in many European cultures. The teetotum was inscribed with letters denoting the Latin words for "nothing", "everything", "half", and "put in". wikipedia.org
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profligacy
profligacy (ˈprɒflɪgəsɪ) [f. next: see -acy 3.] The quality, state, or condition of being profligate. 1. Self-abandonment to dissipation; reckless licentiousness or debauchery; shameless vice.1738 Bolingbroke Patriot King (1749) 181 Hitherto it has been thought the highest pitch of profligacy to own... Oxford English Dictionary
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Versailles II: Testament of the King
To make it even worse, Charles-Louis loses the diamond by Teetotum game. wikipedia.org
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totum
▪ I. totum1 Now dial. (ˈtəʊtəm) [a. L. tōtum all, the whole, the initial T of which was one of the four letters inscribed on the teetotum: cf. F. toton, in Cotgr. and Dict. Acad. 1694–1740 totum, pronounced (tətɔ̃).] = teetotum, q.v.[1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxii. 74 He playis with totum and I with nich... Oxford English Dictionary
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John Jefferys
Rather than using dice, players used a teetotum, a multi-sided top, with a number on each side, players moving the number of spaces indicated by the uppermost wikipedia.org
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pirouette
▪ I. pirouette, n. (pɪruːˈɛt) Also 8 pi-, pyroet. [a. F. pirouette spinning top, child's windmill or whirligig, teetotum, pirouette in dancing or riding (15th c. in Littré); in OF. also in masc. form piroet, pirouet (15th c.), whence piroet in Bailey. A parallel dim. is Burgundian pirouelle teetotum... Oxford English Dictionary
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1843 Grand National
Teetotum and Tinderbox both fell and the former's jockey, Moore sustained a broken collar bone, which was attended to on the spot. wikipedia.org
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simurgh
‖ simurgh (sɪˈmɜːg) Also simurg, simorg(h. [Pers. sīmurgh, f. Pahlavi sīn (Av. saēna, Skr. {cced}yena) eagle + murgh bird.] A monstrous bird of Persian legend, imagined as rational, having the power of speech, and of great age.α 1786 tr. Beckford's Vathek 89 Is the Simurgh coming to pluck out my eye... Oxford English Dictionary
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Long dice
A teetotum is essentially a long die (though not necessarily physically long) with a spindle through its axis, allowing it to be spun and preventing it wikipedia.org
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Boy with a Spinning-Top
Boy with a Spinning-Top or Child with a Teetotum is a 1738 oil-on-canvas painting by Jean Siméon Chardin, now in the Louvre in Paris, which acquired it It is based on a 1735 work now in the São Paulo Museum of Art and shows Auguste-Gabriel, son of the jeweller Charles Godefroy, contemplating a teetotum wikipedia.org
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moonshiny
moonshiny, a. (ˈmuːnʃaɪnɪ) [f. moonshine n. + -y.] 1. Illuminated by the moon; moonlight.1602 Carew Cornwall 136 b, In a faire Moone-shinie night, he hyeth to dig it up. 1717 Pope in Lady M. W. Montagu's Lett. Oct., I lie dreaming of you in moonshiny nights. 1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 14... Oxford English Dictionary
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The Mansion of Happiness
In the pocket were the rules, implements, and teetotum. This type of teetotum was referred to as a pin and plate teetotum. wikipedia.org
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