tipcat

English

Alternative forms

• tip-cat

Etymology

tip +‎ cat

Noun

tipcat (countable and uncountable, plural tipcats)

1. (uncountable) An old game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, to make it travel through the air as far as possible.
   • 1838, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lays of Ancient Rome:

     In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.

2. (countable) The wooden piece used in this game.

   Synonym: cat

Related terms

• catstick

Translations

game in which a wooden piece is struck with a stick

• Azerbaijani: çilingağac m
• Bengali: ডাংগুলি (ḍaṅguli)
• Bulgarian: челик (bg) m (čelik)
• Catalan: bòlit (ca) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Erzya: дёко (ďoko)
• Extremaduran: billarda f, bilarda f
• Finnish: pilppu (fi)
• French: bâtonnet (fr) m
• Galician: billarda (gl) f, estornela f, birlo m, lipe m, pateiro m, lirio (gl) m
• German: Spatzeckspiel n (Upper German), Kibbel-Kabbel n / Kibbel-Kabbel-Spiel n (Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein), Pinneken kloppen n (Ruhr area, Münsterland)
• Hungarian: pilinckézés
• Irish: cead m
• Italian: lippa (it) f
• Macedonian: клиса f (klisa), челик m (čelik)
• Nepali: डन्डी बियो (ḍanḍī biyo)
• Ottoman Turkish: چلیك (çelik), چلیك چوماق (çelik-çomak)
• Persian: الک دولک (fa) (alak dulak), آلاوه (fa) (âlâva), چالیک (fa) (čâlik), چلک (fa) (čalok)
• Polish: klipa (pl) f
• Portuguese: bilharda (pt) f, pateiro (pt) m
• Russian: чи́жик (ru) m (čížik)
• Serbo-Croatian: klȋs (sh) m
• Slovak: piga f
• Spanish: tala (es) f, toña f, billarda (es)
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Tamil: கிட்டி புள் (kiṭṭi puḷ)
• Turkish: çelik-çomak, çelikçomak
• Ukrainian: чи́жик m (čýžyk)
• Urdu: گلی ڈنڈا (galī ḍanḍā)
• Venetian: s-cianco m (Verona)

wooden piece used in tipcat

• Catalan: bòlit (ca) m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Extremaduran: billarda f, bilarda f
• Finnish: pilppu (fi)
• French: bâtonnet (fr) m
• Galician: billarda (gl) f, estornela f, lipe m
• German: Spatzeck n / Spatzeckel m (Upper German), Pinneken n (Ruhr area, Münsterland)
• Irish: cead m
• Italian: lippa (it) f
• Ottoman Turkish: چلیك (çelik)
• Persian: چالیک (fa) (čâlik)
• Polish: klipa (pl) f
• Portuguese: bilharda (pt) f
• Russian: чи́жик (ru) m (čížik)
• Serbo-Croatian: klȋs (sh) m
• Slovak: piga f
• Spanish: tala (es) f, toña f
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çelik (tr), şibibik, düllük
• Ukrainian: чи́жик m (čýžyk)
• Venetian: s-cianco m (Verona)

See also

• gilli-danda

References

• “tipcat”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.