Winkle

Definitions

1. A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
2. A surname.
3. Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
4. The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.
   childish, slang

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Examples

“[…] because the inward Eare is intorted like⟳ a winkle-shell, and hangeth as a bell in thee steeple of the body, it easily perceiueth all appulsions of the Ayre.”

“Shrimps and winkles are the staple commodities of the afternoon trade⟳, which lasts from three to half-past five in the evening. These articles are generally bought by the working-classes for their tea.”

“Sometimes late at night men would come⟳ in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share⟳ them out.”

“Briony was on her knees, trying to put⟳ her arms round Lola and gather her to her, but the body was bony and unyielding, wrapped tight about itself like⟳ a seashell. A winkle.”

“There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica).”

“The conchs or winkles, Busycon carica (fig. 204, opp. p. 216) and B. canaliculata, ... He gave the estimate⟳ of one planter who believed that one winkle was able to destroy⟳ a bushel of oysters in a single hour.”

“In Connecticut, the so-called "winkle" chowder is made from B. [Busycon] canaliculatum.”

“After all, he didn't want⟳ his winkle to get⟳ so big it became unruly and unnatural.”

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