cockle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkl̩/

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• Rhymes: -ɒkəl

Etymology 1

Cockles

From Middle English cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of Middle English cokke, cok (“cockle”), from Old English cocc (found in sǣcocc (“cockle”)) +‎ -le; or perhaps from Old French coquille, from Vulgar Latin *cocchilia, from conchylia, from Ancient Greek κογχύλιον (konkhúlion), diminutive of κογχύλη (konkhúlē, “mussel”), from Proto-Indo-European *konkho.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
2. The shell of such a mollusk.
3. (in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
4. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
5. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
6. (mining, Britain, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
7. (Britain) The fire chamber of a furnace.

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8. (Britain) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.

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9. (Britain) The dome of a heating furnace.

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Derived terms

• blood cockle
• cockleshell
• common cockle
• corncockle
• warm the cockles of one's heart

 

Translations

any of various edible European bivalve mollusks

• Bulgarian: сърцевидна мида f (sǎrcevidna mida)
• Catalan: escopinya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泥蚶 (zh) (níhān)

• Dutch: kokkel (nl) m, kokhaan m, hartschelp
• Finnish: sydänsimpukka
• French: coque (fr) f
• Galician: berberecho (gl) m, croque (gl) m
• German: Herzmuschel f
• Greek: στρείδι (el) n (streídi)
• Hungarian: kagyló (hu), szívkagyló (hu)
• Irish: ruacan m, gruán m, sruán m

• Japanese: ザルガイ (zarugai)
• Korean: 꼬막 (kkomak)
• Maori: tuangi
• Navajo: chʼosh bitsʼaʼí dijoolígíí
• Norman: chuchette f
• Polish: sercówka f
• Portuguese: berbigão (pt) m
• Russian: сердцеви́дка (ru) f (serdcevídka)
• Scottish Gaelic: coilleag f, srùban m
• Spanish: berberecho m
• Ukrainian: серцеви́дка f (sercevýdka)

the shell of the cockle

• Catalan: escopinya (ca) f
• Dutch: kokkel (nl) m, hartschelp
• Finnish: sydänsimpukan kuori

• Greek: κοχύλι (el) n (kochýli)
• Irish: sliogán ruacain m, báisín m
• Scottish Gaelic: coilleag f, srùban m

one’s innermost feelings

• Dutch: zieleroerselen pl

wrinkle — see wrinkle

a defect in sheepskin

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• Galician: ^{(please verify)} berberecho (gl), ^{(please verify)} carneirolo m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 고막 (ko) (gomak)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} širdutės ?
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} hjerteskjell n

• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} kukolj (sh) m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} berberecho m

See also

• scallop

Verb

cockle (third-person singular simple present cockles, present participle cockling, simple past and past participle cockled)

1. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

Wikispecies From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

1. Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, X:

     But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.

Synonyms

• (Lolium temulentum): darnel, false wheat

Related terms

• aquatic cockle
• cocklebur
• corncockle

 

Translations

corncockle — see corncockle

any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle

• Bulgarian: къклица f (kǎklica)
• Catalan: niella (ca) f
• Dutch: kokkelboon m or f, kokhaan m, hartschelp
• French: ivraie enivrante (fr) f

• Italian: loglio (it) m
• Japanese: ドクムギ (dokumugi)
• Portuguese: joio (pt) m
• Spanish: cizaña (es) f

See also

• cheat
• ryegrass
• tare
• vetch

Etymology 3

Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) A £10 note; a tenner.

Anagrams

• Elcock, clocke