English Dictionary

winkle-picker

名詞

アイルランド英語 イギリス英語

(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten. / An implement used to extract the flesh of a periwinkle from its shell.

日本語の意味

巻貝（パーウィンクル）を採取する人 / 巻貝から肉を取り出すための道具

The elderly winkle-picker taught me how to pry the tiny periwinkles from the rocks without breaking their shells.

年配の海辺で食用の小さな巻貝を採る人が、殻を壊さないように岩から小さな巻貝を外す方法を教えてくれた。

意味（1）

(UK, Ireland) A person who harvests periwinkles (a kind of sea snail) to be eaten.

[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!

意味（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.

意味（3）

A style of boot or shoe with a severely pointed toe, fashionable in the 1950s and 1960s.

Four children on the roundabout […] and two youths with heavy side-burns and stiff crew cuts, in black sweaters, drain-pipe jeans and winkle-pickers, made up the entire custom of the afternoon.

winkle-pickers （ plural ）