WINKLE
Dictionary entry overview: What does winkle mean?
• WINKLE (noun)
The noun WINKLE has 2 senses:
1. small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
2. edible marine gastropod
Familiarity information: WINKLE used as a noun is rare.
• WINKLE (verb)
The verb WINKLE has 3 senses:
1. emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
2. gleam or glow intermittently
3. remove or displace from a position
Familiarity information: WINKLE used as a verb is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• WINKLE (noun)
Meaning:
Small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
winkle; periwinkle
Hypernyms ("winkle" is a kind of...):
seafood (edible fish (broadly including freshwater fish) or shellfish or roe etc)
Holonyms ("winkle" is a substance of...):
periwinkle; winkle (edible marine gastropod)
Meaning:
Edible marine gastropod
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
winkle; periwinkle
Hypernyms ("winkle" is a kind of...):
seasnail (any of several creeping marine gastropods with a spirally coiled shell: whelks; tritons; moon shells; neritids)
Meronyms (substance of "winkle"):
periwinkle; winkle (small edible marine snail; steamed in wine or baked)
Holonyms ("winkle" is a member of...):
genus Littorina; Littorina (type genus of the family Littorinidae: periwinkles)
• WINKLE (verb)
Meaning:
Emit or reflect light in a flickering manner
Classified under:
Verbs of raining, snowing, thawing, thundering
Synonyms:
winkle; twinkle; scintillate
Context example:
Does a constellation twinkle more brightly than a single star?
Hypernyms (to "winkle" is one way to...):
beam; shine (emit light; be bright, as of the sun or a light)
Domain category:
celestial body; heavenly body (natural objects visible in the sky)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Meaning:
Gleam or glow intermittently
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
twinkle; flash; wink; winkle; blink
Context example:
The lights were flashing
Hypernyms (to "winkle" is one way to...):
radiate (cause to be seen by emitting light as if in rays)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "winkle"):
flick; flicker (flash intermittently)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Remove or displace from a position
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
winkle out; winkle
Hypernyms (to "winkle" is one way to...):
bring out; get out (take out of a container or enclosed space)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
