Word.ws English Dictionary

winkling out

winkling out is the present participle and gerund of winkle out.

Meaning of winkle out

Verb

winkle out (third-person singular simple present winkles out, present participle winkling out, simple past and past participle winkled out)

  1. (UK, transitive) To acquire with difficulty, as by thorough scrutiny.
    • Tom managed to winkle the truth out of John eventually.
  2. (transitive) To get (something or someone) out of an entrenched position.
    • […] was mopping up the remnants of German resistance and trying to winkle out individual enemy soldiers from their hiding places.2011, Ken Ford, Operation Archery: The Commandos and the Vaagso Raid 1941, page 59

Questions about winkling out

What is winkling out the present participle and gerund of?
Winkling out is the present participle and gerund of winkle out.

Words near winkling out in the dictionary

  1. Winklevoss
  2. Winklevosses
  3. Winkley
  4. Winkleys
  5. winkling
  6. winkling out
  7. winks
  8. winks at
  9. winksome
  10. winkt
  11. Winkton

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: winkling out (page history and authors); winkle out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “winkling out.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/winkling_out. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.