Wordie: Winkle

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(v): emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light

(v): gleam or glow intermittently

(v): cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays

(v): remove or displace from a position

(v): take out of a container or enclosed space

(n): small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked

(n): edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc

(n): edible marine gastropod

(n): any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids

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8 minutes ago bilby said:

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.

16 minutes ago plethora said:

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

8 months ago mollusque said:

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

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