Winkle
# Winkle

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

## Places

* 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

## Fictional characters

* 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

## Other uses

* 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
