Winkle Explained

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
Tegula pfeifferi

Winkle, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community
East Danville, Ohio, United States, an unincorporated community also known as Winkle
Winkle Island (disambiguation), several places with the name

Bertram Winkle, a butler in the television series Jessie
Leslie Winkle, a recurring character in the television series The Big Bang Theory
Nathaniel Winkle, in the novel The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
Wilbert G. Winkle, protagonist of Mr. Winkle Goes to War, a 1944 war comedy film, played by Edward G. Robinson
protagonist of Winnie Winkle, an American comic strip (1920–1996), and ten film shorts; also her adopted brother Perry Winkle
Witch Winkle, in the British comics magazine Twinkle

nickname of Eric Brown (pilot) (1919–2016), British Royal Navy officer and test pilot
Gregory Winkle (c. 1955–1971), victim of a serial killer
Mr. Winkle, a stray dog popularized by his photographer owner
Winkle squeeze, a play in the card game of contract bridge
James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, part of the University of Cincinnati Academic Health Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Development codename of the RAF's RX12874 radar detector
Winkle Brig, a type of sailing boat built between 1985 and 2002