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Winkle vs Wintle - What's the difference?

winkle | wintle |

As verbs the difference between winkle and wintle

is that winkle is to extract while wintle is to wind, to reel.

As a noun winkle

is a periwinkle or its shell, of family family: Littorinidae.

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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  • (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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    wintle

    English

    Verb

    (wintl)
  • (Scotland) To wind, to reel.
  • * Author not recorded, Cumberland and Murray's Descent into Hell'', 1861, Charles Mackay (editor), ''The Jacobite Songs and Ballads of Scotland from 1688 to 1746 , page 266,
  • The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
  • * 1974', Austin Clarke, quoted in '''1981 , G. Craig Tapping, ''Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings , page 282,
  • Along the cliffs a breeze wintled .
  • (Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
  • (Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
  • * 1901 , , 2011, page 214,
  • At a quick turn o' the road they wintled owre, and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them!
  • (Scotland) To wriggle.
  • * 2002 , Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey , US, page 222,
  • Miss Radford wintled across the floor on her bottom until she slumped beside Eloise, who rolled her eyes and bared her lower teeth.

    Derived terms

    * wintler

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