Definition of "winkles" [winkles]

• Plural form of winkle. (noun)

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• "Arrived at the fish-market, conger eels as big as Win's wrist, and four or five feet long, crabs two feet across the shells, lobsters blue rather than green, enormous scallops, huge stacks of oysters, cockles and snails, the so-called winkles, greeted the astonished eyes of the young people."
• "The former are conchlike in texture, the "winkles" teeny and sweet."
• "What we did have were Winklers (or "winkles" to use a term of more intimate endearment)."