Winkle

Winkle may refer to:

Snails

  • Common periwinkle, an edible marine intertidal species found in Europe and North America
  • Any species within the family Littorinidae, the winkles, small intertidal sea snails
  • Some edible species of nerites which are also small aquatic snails, some marine, some freshwater
  • Sometimes applied to certain land species that have an operculum, such as Pomatias elegans, the land winkle

Places

Other uses

  • nickname of Eric Brown (pilot) (1919–2016), British Royal Navy officer and test pilot
  • Leslie Winkle, a character in the television series The Big Bang Theory
  • Nathaniel Winkle, a character in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  • Winkle squeeze, a play in the card game of contract bridge
  • Development codename of the RAF's RX12874 radar detector

See also

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