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English

Wikispecies

Etymology

Short for periwinkle.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w??k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Noun

winkle (plural winkles)

1. A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
   • 1615, Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia, a Description of the Body of Man, London: William Jaggard, Book 8, Chapter 25, p. 610,^[1]

     […] because the inward Eare is intorted like a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre.

   • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, London: G. Newbold, Volume 1, p. 64,^[2]

     Shrimps and winkles are the staple commodities of the afternoon trade, which lasts from three to half-past five in the evening. These articles are generally bought by the working-classes for their tea.

   • 1933, George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz, Chapter 25, p. 181,^[3]

     Sometimes late at night men would come in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share them out.

   • 2001, Ian McEwen, Atonement, Toronto: Vintage Canada, Chapter 13,^[4]

     Briony was on her knees, trying to put her arms round Lola and gather her to her, but the body was bony and unyielding, wrapped tight about itself like a seashell. A winkle.

2. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:winkle.
3. (children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.

Derived terms

• winkle-picker

Synonyms

• (Littorinidae): oyster drill
• (Busycon and Busycotypus spp.): Fulgar carica, Busycon canaliculata
• (childish: the penis): See also Thesaurus:penis

Translations

Verb

winkle (third-person singular simple present winkles, present participle winkling, simple past and past participle winkled)

1. To extract.

See also

• winkle out

Anagrams

• Wilken, welkin

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English inklen, inclen (“to give an inkling of, hint at, mention, utter in an undertone”), derived from inke (“apprehension, misgiving”), from Old English inca (“doubt, suspicion”), from Proto-Germanic *inkô (“ache, regret”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?eng- (“illness”). Cognate with Old Frisian jinc (“angered”), Old Norse ekki (“pain, grief”), Norwegian ekkje (“lack, pity”).

Verb

inkle (third-person singular simple present inkles, present participle inkling, simple past and past participle inkled)

1. (transitive, rare) To hint at; disclose.
2. (transitive, rare) To have a hint or inkling of; divine.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:allude

Related terms

• inkling

Etymology 2

Apparently from earlier *ingle, perhaps from an incorrect division of lingle, lingel.

Alternative forms

• incle

Noun

inkle (countable and uncountable, plural inkles)

1. Narrow linen tape, used for trimmings or to make shoelaces
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, ‘Love's Labour's Lost’, Act III:

     COSTARD - '… What's the price of this inkle?'

Anagrams

• Elkin, Klein, Kline, k-line, kline, lekin, liken