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Plural of winkle

regular plural

The plural of winkle is winkles.

Forms of winkle

Singularwinkle /ˈwɪŋkəl/
Pluralwinkles
Countablecountable

Winkles in a sentence

  • Sometimes late at night men would come in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share them out.1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz...

Meaning of winkle

  1. noun A periwinkle or its shell, of family Littorinidae.
  2. noun Any one of various marine spiral gastropods, especially, in the United States, either of two species Busycotypus canaliculatus or Busycon carica.
  3. noun The penis, especially that of a child rather than that of an adult.

Full definition of winkle

Questions about the plural of winkle

What is the plural of winkle?
The plural of winkle is winkles.
Is winkle countable?
Winkle is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: winkle (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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