Winkle

Definition

winkle /'wÇŋkl/ ( Brit ) (also periwinkle ) n (စားရေသာ) ပင္လယ္ခ႐ုေသးတစ္မ်ဳိး။ ❏ winkle sb/ sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) အတင္း ဆြဲထုတ္သည္။ I'm sure he'd like to come for a walk with us if we can winkle him out of his study. ❏ winkle sth out (of sb) [ PHRV ]( infml ) အစ္သည္။ ေအာက္သည္။ She's very clever at winkling secrets out of people.

Examples

1. ‘Other combinations include pasta with winkles
2. Yorkshire pudding stuffed with Italian cured meat
3. and sanguinaccio con cipole (that's black pudding with onions to you).’
4. ‘Periwinkles
5. or winkles as their vendors commonly call them
6. are now eaten much more in Europe than America
7. although the middens of American Indians testify to their use there in the past.’
8. ‘When I lived here twenty-odd years ago
9. I had almost no money and gathered mussels for my soup-pot
10. nettles
11. pried the meat out of winkles with a pin.’
12. ‘In spring and summer we would pick mussels
13. cockles and winkles round the ‘glar’ or silt mud in the harbour.’
14. ‘Hundreds of 9th century winkle shells were found in the cliff face
15. along with fish bones
16. charred grain and butchered animal bones
17. providing evidence of the mundane diet of the Anglo-Saxon population.’
18. ‘Anyway
19. recently the children asked to try some whelks and winkles
20. which were so vinegary they'd lost all their flavour
21. and then Megan asked to try the crab.’
22. ‘Although there are many winkles on Breydon
23. I have never seen the oystercatcher take them.’
24. ‘They will be often be observed eating mussels from both reef and wreckage and also seem to favour winkles
25. which they pick delicately from kelp fronds before spitting out the remains of the shell.’
26. ‘Shellfish such as oysters
27. mussels
28. cockles
29. winkles
30. whelks and crabs were collected for food from the estuaries and sea-shores.’
31. ‘At Kircubbin Bay
32. people were out at low tide with their rakes
33. collecting cockles and winkles.’
34. ‘Huge oysters
35. terrifyingly substantial octopus tentacles
36. lightly curried saffron prawns and lobster
37. crayfish and crab meat
38. cod fillet and winkles.’
39. ‘We had to pick out the winkles
40. rockfish and tiny crabs.’
41. ‘The sand was dotted with saucer - sized jellyfish
42. rocks and pools are squidgy with jelly buttons encrusted with limpets
43. barnacles and winkles and are seedbeds for mussels.’
44. ‘Most Scottish rock pools are full of winkles
45. their round olive-green or brown shells as easy to pick as daisies on a lawn.’
46. ‘The gang spent several hours using quad bikes to speed along the seabed at low water as the rest filled hundreds of sacks of the winkles to load into waiting vans.’
47. ‘I boiled the winkles and steamed the potatoes as quickly as I could.’
48. ‘So you see
49. when I dozed off in my garden chair in the middle of a fascinating discussion with my son about which animals have winkles and which don't
50. I was in very good company.’
51. ‘One of my favourite snapshots of my son shows him running around
52. winkle to the wind
53. naked as the day he was born.’
54. ‘When you know how many there are in the lake
55. you would think that an experienced angler would be able to winkle out a few trout
56. but we had found it tough.’
57. ‘It's clear water conditions or a fining down river for me - but then
58. I have managed to winkle out the odd pike in just about any condition a river can throw up
59. so never write off your chances.’