winkle

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  1. noun Zoology A periwinkle.
  2. transitive verb Chiefly British To pry, extract, or force from a place or position. Often used with out.

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  • The beach was deserted but there were sounds of movement in the rooms strung out along the balcony and at the window of number four, Louli Barker stood with her bright head in a Tiggy-winkle of curling-pins, drying her hair in the sun. —  Tour De Force - Christianna Brand - Cockrill 06: 1955
  • It might be a tree that you see plenty of on a regular walk, or a tree that you remember picnicking under as a wee kiddy-winkle, or … or anything really. —  Festival of the Trees
  • The winkle-pickered duo rocked up on the doorstep of the parents of a friend who had moved to Southport, near Liverpool, and simply asked to stay. —  Vice Magazine
  • We always thought a winkle-hawk was a TRIANGULAR tear in cloth, which naturally occurs when a snag is pulled from one point. —  Everything2 New Writeups
  • Right up there with whether or not tinky winkle is gay, whether intelligent design should be included in science classes, and whether we should punish Janet Jackson for exposing —  digg.com: Stories / Popular
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  1. From winkle1 (from the process of extracting periwinkles from their shells).

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  1. from Anglo-Saxon *wincle, in comp. pine-winclan, periwinkles; allied to wink: see wink and petiwinkle.
 

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/ˈwɪŋkl/
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