winkle-picker

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten. Ireland,UK
    — [The girl] informed me that […] I had no right to wander at will upon the winkle-beds! Her brother, said she, was the watcher over this particular part of the Whitstable fishing-ground, beyond which he was the champion winkle-picker of the neighbourhood!
  2. An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.
    — “Anyway, she can’t have got much pleasure out of him. If it’s owt like the rest of him she’d need a winkle-picker to find it.”
  3. A style of boot or shoe with a severely pointed toe, fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s. also,attributive
    — winkle-picker toes; winkle-picker stilettos

词形变化

winkle-pickers plural winklepicker alternative winkle picker alternative
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