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by Jill_the_Pill 2564 days ago
I had read the term "winklepicker" a few times in the past, with no photo or description, and just assumed it was the snappy British equivalent of the American "clamdigger" -- a sort of short pants you'd wear collecting mollusks.

A classic example of "what you know that just ain't so."