EGAVE

winkle

About 0.34 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

Similar words

periwinkle wink blink scintillate twinkle flash winkle out rip pickers wiglet

Often followed by

and was out in had of ra is who

Word family

winkled winkles winkling

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