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Verb: winkle out  wing-kul awt
  1. Extract or obtain something with difficulty, especially information from a reluctant person
    "She winkled out the secret information from her colleague";
    - winkle

Derived forms: winkles out, winkling out, winkled out

Type of: bring out, get out