Winkled vs Wintled - What's the difference?
winkled | wintled |
(winkle)
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.
to extract
(wintle)
(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 ,
* 1974', Austin Clarke, quoted in '''1981 , G. Craig Tapping, ''Austin Clarke: A Study of His Writings ,
(Scotland) To stagger, to sway or rock.
(Scotland) To tumble, to capsize.
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(Scotland) To wriggle.
* 2002 , Micaela Gilchrist, The Good Journey , US,
As verbs the difference between winkled and wintled
is that winkled is past tense of winkle while wintled is past tense of wintle.winkled
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Verb
(head)winkle
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(wikipedia winkle) (Fulgar)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (Littorinidae) oyster drill * * See alsoSee also
* winkle out *Verb
(winkl)Anagrams
*wintled
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Verb
(head)wintle
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Verb
(wintl)page 266,
- The worm of hell, which never dies, / In wintled coil writhes up and fries.
page 282,
- Along the cliffs a breeze wintled .
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!
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.