Winkles

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. ❋ Edna Adelaide Brown (N/A)

The former are conchlike in texture, the "winkles" teeny and sweet. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What we did have were Winklers (or "winkles" to use a term of more intimate endearment). ❋ Ndemik (2009)

It is safe to eat lobsters, crabs and winkles, which are not filter feeders, at any time. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Having closed for two years, she's just re-opened, still serving crab and lobster straight off her father's West Bay fishing boat, the Ellie Joe, plus locally sourced whelks, scallops, winkles, fresh prawns and crayfish. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She surfs on the riffs of the play and she winkles out its humour. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Most of our summer in the tiny, picturesque port town of Le Conquet on the Brittany coast was spent wandering in and out of the noisy market stalls, buying scoops of winkles, whelks, huge, plump crabs right out of the ocean. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Here is where black pudding sits on polenta, winkles meet pasta and truffles get on with cuttlefish. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why, my uncle slipped in the rain in Covent Garden after a spot of winkles and buttermilk. ❋ Gwyn Cready (2010)

Who winkles me forth from my home inside the river? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mine is naturally hair free - maybe hairy winkles are a Canadian adaptation to extreme cold weather...and hockey... ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)

Thompson's doctoral study was on slimy stuff that mollusks such as limpets and winkles like to eat: diatoms, cyanobacteria, algae, and tiny plants that cling to seaweed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I threw some clothes in the dryer (to knock some winkles out), I took a quick shower, and then I went back to my room to take my clothes out the dryer and put them on. ❋ Cloudy-night (2008)

You can't see it because I blurred the shot in my attempt not to look like the kind of man who takes pictures of plastic winkles in tube stations, but the packaging said "Cock 45" (on the orangey bit at upper left). ❋ Amuchmoreexotic (2004)

And l love 360 if yahoo can just iron out the winkles. l also feel that if yahoo wants to have a younger crowd in their service, then set up a place for them and let the older users keep the 360. ❋ Michael Arrington (2005)

Our little entourage brought folk popping out of their houses like winkles on pins, mouths agape. ❋ Gabaldon, Diana (2005)

The rising novelist is never pestered to come to gin and winkles with the plumber and his wife. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sometimes late at night men would come in with a pail of winkles they had bought cheap, and share them out. ❋ Unknown (2004)