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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

winkle n.¹

(usu. UK juv.) a (small) penis.

1890–1904		Farmer & Henley Sl. and Its Analogues.
c.1940		‘She Wore No Blouse’ in Bold (1979) 204: My boy, the pimple / On the end of your winkle / Will grow just like a red, red rose.
1966		Trimble 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases.
1989		Viz June–July 25: I love the taste of a hot winkle.
2019		P. Baker Fabulosa 299/1: winkle a small penis.

In phrases

have (something) on the winkle (v.)

to be obsessed by something.

1954		K. Amis letter 19 May in Leader (2000) 390: I’m longing to know the Swedish for phrases like ‘You’ve got this “rude” business on the winkle.’.
1969		K. Amis Green Man 118: Look, Dad, for some reason you’ve got death on the winkle.
1984		Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 1343: [...] since ca. 1920.
2015		elderly gentleman, London East End ‘Is that a boy dog? [points to dachshund] I don’t understand how he doesn’t bang his winkle when he jumps up on to the pavement’.

spit the winkle (v.)

(Aus.) to squirt water from one’s anus (a surfer’s ‘party trick’).

1989		Tracks (Aus.) Dec. 78: [caption] One of the most notorious surfers’ party tricks – spit the winkle.
1990		Tracks (Aus.) Mar. 3/2: [I]n your excellent salute to the ’80s, there’s a photo of a dude dropping a brown-eye. You have said he’s ‘spitting the winkle’. [...] The man in question is actually squirting water from his bottom.