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winkled

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Short for periwinkle.

winkle (plural winkles)

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.
Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculata and Busycon carica.
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(children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.

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

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