WINKLE meaning: Extract small shellfish from shells

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word winkle:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

winkle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
winkle: Merriam-Webster
winkle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
winkle, winkle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
winkle: Collins English Dictionary
winkle: Vocabulary.com
Winkle, winkle: Wordnik
winkle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Winkle, winkle: Wiktionary
winkle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
winkle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
winkle: Dictionary.com
winkle: Online Etymology Dictionary
Winkle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Winkle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
winkle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
winkle: Rhymezone
Winkle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
Winkle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
winkle: FreeDictionary.org
winkle: Mnemonic Dictionary
winkle: TheFreeDictionary.com
winkle: Infoplease Dictionary

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winkle: Encyclopedia

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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

winkle: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)

Winkle (offensive): Racial Slur Database
winkle, winkle: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
winkle: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
winkle: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
▸ noun:  Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
▸ noun:  (childish, slang) The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
▸ verb:  Synonym of winkle out (“to acquire or extract with difficulty”)
▸ noun:  A surname.

Similar:

periwinkle, wink, blink, twinkle, scintillate, flash, winkle out, wiglet, windle, weep, more...

Phrases:

Van Winkle, winkle out, Rip Van Winkle, winkle pickers, winkle hawk, more...

Adjectives:

old, poor, rip, drunken, modern, tiggy, young, unhappy, day, little, immortal

Colors:

periwinkle, lavender, lilac, mauve, violet, more...

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