[Origin unknown: perh. = TEDDY.] In the game of gleek, the four of trumps.
1655. [see TIB sb. 2].
1680. Cotton, Compl. Gamester, vi. (ed. 2), 65 (Gleek). The turned up Card is the Dealers; and if it be Tiddy turn’d up is four apiece from each to the Dealer. The Ace is called Tib, the Knave Tom, the four of Trumps Tiddy.
1688. R. Holme, Armoury, III. xvi. (Roxb.), 73/2.
1822. Scott, Nigel, xvi. I gained the cards, and lo you! it pleases his lordship to say that we played without tiddy.
