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Wink vs Winkle - What's the difference?

wink | winkle |

As verbs the difference between wink and winkle

is that wink is to close one's eyes while winkle is to extract.

As nouns the difference between wink and winkle

is that wink is an act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking while winkle is a periwinkle or its shell, of family family: Littorinidae.

wink

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To close one's eyes.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I will wink , so shall the day seem night.
  • * Tillotson
  • They are not blind, but they wink .
  • (archaic) To turn a blind eye.
  • *, New York Review of Books, 2001, p.51:
  • Some trot about to bear false witness, and say anything for money; and though judges know of it, yet for a bribe they wink at it, and suffer false contracts to prevail against equity.
  • * Herbert
  • And yet, as though he knew it not, / His knowledge winks , and lets his humours reign.
  • * John Locke
  • Obstinacy can not be winked at, but must be subdued.
  • (intransitive) To blink with only one eye as a message, signal, or suggestion.
  • He winked at me.
    She winked her eye.
  • To twinkle.
  • To be dim and flicker.
  • The light winks .
  • To send an indication of agreement by winking.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.
  • A brief time; an instant.
  • A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.
  • * 1919 ,
  • I couldn't bear to leave him where he is. I shouldn't sleep a wink for thinking of him.
  • A disc used in the game of tiddlywinks.
  • Derived terms

    * nudge nudge wink wink * wink murder

    winkle

    English

    (wikipedia winkle) (Fulgar)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A periwinkle or its shell, of family .
  • Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species .
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  • * {{quote-book, title=Personal Reminiscences of Men and Things on Long Island,
  • books.google.com/books?id=Tb8_AAAAYAAJ, author=Daniel Melancthon Tredwell, year=1912, passage=There were also found fragments of the winkle (Fulgar carica ).}}
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  • (children's slang) The penis, especially that of a boy rather than that of a man.
  • Synonyms

    * (Littorinidae) oyster drill * * See also

    See also

    * winkle out *

    Verb

    (winkl)
  • to extract
  • Anagrams

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