n. & v.
n. any edible marine gastropod mollusc of the genus Littorina; a periwinkle.
v.tr. (foll. by out) esp. Brit. extract or eject (winkled the information out of them). winkle-picker sl. a shoe with a long pointed toe. winkler n.
[ abbr. of PERIWINKLE(2): cf. WIG(1) ]