SQUIDGER
(b) Tiddlywinks. The larger wink used to propel or flip a player’s winks. From squidge, squeeze. 1958: “Each tiddlywinker plays with two large and four medium-size winks and, to hoist them, uses a wink of suitable size.”
DOLOSE
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(c) Characterised by criminal intention. Intentionally deceitful. The adjective from the Latin dolus, craft or deceit. 1861: “Without accusing his learned friend of being dolose, he did accuse him of having misled their lordships.”
TOHEROA
(b) A large edible bivalve mollusc. Amphidesma ventricosum. Native to New Zealand. An adaptation of the Maori. 1967: “The number one has special black caviar, but the two has smoked Spanish swordfish and New Zealand toheroa patties.”
DIONISE
(c) A precious stone, of a black colour streaked with red, reckoned by medieval writers a preservative against drunkenness. 1567: “The Dionise is black, or rather brown, all bestrowed with bloody strokes or veins.”