tipcat

English

From tip +‎ cat.

tipcat (countable and uncountable, plural tipcats)

(uncountable) A traditional children's 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.
- 1834–1838 (date written), Thomas Babington Macaulay, “(please specify the page)”, in Lays of Ancient Rome, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], published 1842, →OCLC:
  In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staring wildly upward with his stick in his hand.
(countable) The wooden piece used in this game.
Synonym: cat

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, bige (hu)
Irish: cead m
Italian: lippa (it) f
Macedonian: клиса f (klisa), челик m (čelik)
Nepali: डन्डी बियो (ḍanḍī biyo)
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
Ottoman Turkish: چلیك (çelik), چلیك چوماق (çelik-çomak)
Ukrainian: чи́жик m (čýžyk)
Urdu: گلی ڈنڈا (galī ḍanḍā)
Venetan: s-cianco m (Verona)
Welsh: y gath f, pegi m

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
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
Tamil: கிட்டி (ta) (kiṭṭi)
Turkish: çelik (tr), şibibik, düllük
Ottoman Turkish: چلیك (çelik)
Ukrainian: чи́жик m (čýžyk)
Venetan: s-cianco m (Verona)
Welsh: cath (cy) f