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单词 winkle
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winklen.

Brit. /ˈwɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/
Forms: Also 1500s wincle, 1600s winckle.
Etymology: Shortened < periwinkle n.2 (cf. wig n.3 from periwig).
1. = periwinkle n.2 1.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shell-fish or mollusc > whelk, winkle, or cockle
whelkc725
cockOE
cockle1311
winkle1585
cuckolda1757
wink1851
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Littorinidae > member of genus Littorina (periwinkle)
periwinkle1530
winkle1585
wrinkle1589
pin-patch1694
wink1851
Littorina1857
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 65/2 Cochlea,..a Wincle: a periwincle or cockle.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xxxix. 218 Lisards, (deadly enemies to the Snailes or Winkles above named).
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 727 Stones like unto sea winkles or cockles and other sea fish.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 601 It is called Concha..because it is like a Winkle or Periwinkle.
1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxi. 272 The very winkle of your country in his shelly lair.
1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. vii. 60 A typical family..lives before the public on a nutriment of winkles and gin.
attributive.1845 P. Hawker Diary (1893) II. 256 The 'winklemen were on the mud all day.?1881 Census Eng. & Wales: Instr. Clerks classifying Occupations & Ages (?1885) 39 Winkle Gatherer.1903 Times 13 Aug. 13/2 A shilling used to be charged for a winkle license, which lasted during the winkle season.
2. slang (chiefly juveniles'). The penis (of a young boy).
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1951 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Add. 1223/2 Winkle, n., penis: children's, (young) schoolboys': late C. 19–20.
1970 Guardian 3 Feb. 8 I was mildly troubled by the insistence, especially of one headmaster, on the ‘proper names for things’. Penis is right and winkle is wrong.
1970 T. Hughes Crow 63 O do not chop his winkle off His Mammy cried.
1973 M. Amis Rachel Papers 78 ‘Thanks,’ he said to his (new) witch-like girlfriend as she handed him a joint so ill-made that it resembled a baby's winkle.

Compounds

winkle-picker n. slang a shoe with a long pointed toe.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > shoe or boot > shoe > [noun] > types of > with specific shaped toes
duck-bill1834
wing-tip1872
razor toe1895
point shoe1910
winkle-picker1960
1960 Spectator 15 Apr. 553 The incredibly pointed custom-built shoes in which teenagers keep other teenagers at arm's length... The shoes, called winklepickers, look like something out of Grimm's fairy tales.
1960 News Chron. 13 Sept. 5/3 The ‘winkle picker’ high heels and the high spirits have gone.
1978 C. Sykes in R. Buckle U & Non-U Revisited 57 The mass-produced variety, popularly known as ‘winkle-pickers’, were very ugly.
1980 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 May 5/3 I had the hairdo, the lairy shirt, the winkle-picker shoes.
winkle-pin n. Military slang = bayonet n. 2.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > bayonet
dagger1688
bayonet1704
fixed bayonet1802
ring bayonet1841
sword-bayonet1844
winkle-pin1924
spike1928
1924 R. Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 314 As his sergeant I had to check him for misusin' his winkle-pin on dirt.
1950 E. Partridge Here, There & Everywhere 62 The bayonet..has many names..[e.g.] winkle-pin.

Derivatives

ˈwinkling n. gerund
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > [noun] > for shellfish > for others
clamming1636
cockling1790
periwinkling1841
five-fingering1889
winkling1898
ormering1903
quahogging1905
1898 Punch 20 Aug. 77/2 D'year as 'ow old Bob Osborne 'ave give up Shrimpin' an took ter Winklin'?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

winklev.1

Brit. /ˈwɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/
Etymology: < wink v.1 + -le suffix 3.
dialect.
intransitive. To emit light intermittently; to twinkle.
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the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [verb (intransitive)] > sparkle or glitter
twinklec888
shimc950
blika1000
glisec1000
glistenc1000
glista1225
glore13..
sparkc1300
glisterc1380
sparklec1386
spranklea1387
glittera1400
sprinklea1400
blikenc1400
glaster1447
springlec1460
sprangle1495
brandish1552
pink1589
scintillate1623
simper1633
twink1637
spangle1639
scintill1681
scintillize1694
prinkle1724
skinkle1765
winkle1791
coruscate1807
1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 37 In vain the starry winkling gleam.
1807 J. Hogg Mountain Bard 63 What though she has twa little winkling een? They're better than nane.
1905 M. Barnes-Grundy Vacillations Hazel 198 The stars and planets twinkled and winkled, and sparkled and glittered.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

winklev.2

Brit. /ˈwɪŋkl/, U.S. /ˈwɪŋk(ə)l/
Etymology: < winkle n.
colloquial (originally Military slang).
trans. to winkle out: to extract or eject (as a winkle from its shell with a pin); to draw forth, find out or elicit.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > as by sifting, teasing, etc.
tozec1450
to pick out1523
to bolt out1545
sift1592
pumpa1637
incern1656
probe1699
mole1856
to winkle out1942
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > sinuously or subtly
sap1733
winkle1942
the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by force, effort, or contrivance
to draw outOE
outdrawlOE
drawc1300
win out1362
out-wina1425
windc1535
extract1628
exact1647
exforcipatea1834
to winkle out1942
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 306 Winkle, to, to capture individual prisoners by stealth... Also,..to steal.]
1942 ‘M. Home’ House of Shade ii. 20 What's winkled you out at this goddam hour?
1943 People 31 Oct. 1/7 Methodically winkling the Germans out of their strongpoints.
1951 ‘M. Innes’ Operation Pax v. vi. 220 Until we winkle out this young man..you and I make not a bad team.
1958 J. Press Chequer'd Shade 4 It is illegitimate to compare the far-fetched conjectures of Eliot's commentators with the inside information which we might have winkled out of Donne.
1966 Listener 20 Jan. 111/3 It's the cunning of the interviewer that counts most of all, and certainly Mr. Muggeridge manages to winkle out some interesting bits and pieces.
1970 Sunday Mail Mag. (Brisbane) 17 May 14/1 He could winkle out sin where no other man dreamed it existed.
1976 A. Eden Another World vii. 79 Hart's skills were in a sense wasted upon us, and he was at length winkled out to the advantage of a base hospital.

Draft additions 1993

2. intransitive. to winkle one's way, to proceed by picking one's steps cautiously; hence, to worm one's way or insinuate oneself.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > effect forward movement in specific way > in other specific ways
smell1608
to bore one's waya1705
slice1872
sing1890
nose1894
to bullock one's way1909
muscle1934
to winkle one's way1979
1979 K. M. Peyton Marion's Angels i. 18 The conductor was returning, followed by Pennington, who winkled his way to the Steinway round the delphiniums.
1989 Amer. Speech 64 260 Is it true that new words winkle their way into English at a fixed rate of 3000 each lustrum?
1991 Washington Times 4 Jan. b2/4 It is a talk show in the sense that he accepts calls, but these are finely screened. Rush is wary of those who winkle their way past the screener by pretending to be a Ditto.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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