Wordie: Winkle: Comments

Comment by bilby, 2 months ago

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:47:23 +0000

This was my sister's kitten's name when I was a kid. It was named after a ski-lift somewhere near Engelberg in Switzerland. The originally spelling was probably Winkel but I always thought of it as Winkle.

Comment by plethora, 2 months ago

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:39:44 +0000

Nursie: "You almost were a boy, my little cherry pip.."
Queenie: "What?"
Nursie: "Yeah, out you popped out of you mummy's tumkin and everyone shouted, 'It's a boy! It's a boy!', then somebody said, 'but he doesn't have a winkle.' Then, I said, 'A boy without a winkle? God be praised it's a miracle: a boy without a winkle!' And then, Sir Thomas Moore pointed out that a boy without a winkle is a girl. And everyone was really disappointed.."
-- Blackadder, Season Two, Episode 1: Bells

Comment by mollusque, 11 months ago

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 03:17:29 +0000

He argue-bargues with you like a winkle that won't come out of its shell.
--William F. De Morgan, 1906, Joseph Vance