Winkle
[WINK-əl]
Part of speech: verb
Origin: British, late 16th century
1.
Extract or obtain something with difficulty.
Examples of Winkle in a sentence
"The interrogator was used to winkling confessions out of the most hard-boiled subjects."
"I had to winkle the button out of the too-tight buttonhole on my new shirt."
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