title: Winkle
text: # 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
  