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Verb
/ˈwiNGkəl/,
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winkles, plural;
  1. Extract or obtain something with difficulty
    • - I swore I wasn't going to tell her, but she winkled it all out of me
Noun
  1. A small herbivorous shore-dwelling mollusk with a spiral shell

  1. periwinkle: small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
  2. twinkle: emit or reflect light in a flickering manner; "Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?"
  3. flash: gleam or glow intermittently; "The lights were flashing"
  4. remove or displace from a position
  5. The common periwinkle, winkle, or Littorina littorea, is a small edible species marine gastropod with gills and an operculum in the family Littorinidae.
  6. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species of Fulgar (F. canaliculata and F. carica); The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man
  7. (Winkles) are snail creatures found in Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. They live in the Chucklehuck Woods and run the Winkle Colosseum, a stadium requiring 500 Coins to participate. Inside, Mario and Luigi played the Chuckorock Bounce mini-game. ...
  8. A squeeze without the count that forces the defender to choose between a throw-in and an unblock, each of which is a losing option.