Winkle

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Zoology A periwinkle.
  • v. Chiefly British To pry, extract, or force from a place or position. Often used with out.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata and F. carica).
  • n. The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any periwinkle.
  • n. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, esp., in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (Fulgar canaliculata, and Fulgar carica).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Same as periwinkle.
  • A dialectal variant of wankle.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. gleam or glow intermittently
  • v. remove or displace from a position
  • n. small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
  • n. edible marine gastropod
  • v. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
  • Verb Form
    winkled    winkles    winkling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    get out    bring out    seafood    sea snail    beam    shine   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dinkel    finckle    finkle    kinkle    sprinkle    tinkle    trinkle    twinkle    wrinkle   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    wankle    patibility    step    swinge    ormer    cowrie    Philistine