cockle

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒkl̩/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑk(ə)l/
• Rhymes: -ɒkəl
• Hyphenation: cock‧le

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”), of Pre-Greek substrate origin.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
   • 1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164:

     His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.

2. The shell of such a mollusk.
3. (directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
4. (by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
5. (figurative, in the plural) Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings.
6. (UK)
   1. The dome of a heating furnace.
   2. The fire chamber of a furnace.
   3. A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
   4. (Cornwall, mining) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.

Derived terms

• blood cockle
• cockle-bread
• cockleman
• cockler
• cockleshell
• cocklestove
• cockle wife
• cocklewoman
• cockly
• common cockle
• corn cockle
• corncockle
• earcockle
• ear cockle
• hotcockles
• moulding of cockle bread
• warm the cockles of someone'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)
• Malay: kerang (ms)
• Maori: tuangi
• Navajo: chʼosh bitsʼaʼí dijoolígíí
• Norman: chuchette f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: hjertemusling m, hjerteskjell n

• Ottoman Turkish: طراق (tarak)
• Polish: sercówka f
• Portuguese: berbigão (pt) m
• Russian: сердцеви́дка (ru) f (serdcevídka)
• Scottish Gaelic: coilleag f, srùban m
• Spanish: berberecho m, coquina (es) f
• Ukrainian: серцеви́дка f (sercevýdka)

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
• Maltese: arzella f
• Scottish Gaelic: coilleag f, srùban m

wrinkle — see wrinkle

defect in sheepskin

one’s innermost feelings

• Dutch: zieleroerselen pl

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• Galician: ^{(please verify)} berberecho (gl), ^{(please verify)} carneirolo m
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 고막 (ko) (gomak)
• Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} širdutės ?
• 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. (transitive) To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.

Etymology 2

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, section 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
• Irish: cogal m
• 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

Origin uncertain.

Verb

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

1. (Scotland, Northern England, Midlands) To wobble, shake; to be unsteady. [from 17th c.]
   • 2017, Benjamin Myers, The Gallows Pole, Bloomsbury, published 2019, page 32:

     Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.

Etymology 4

Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

Noun

cockle (plural cockles)

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

Anagrams

• Elcock, clocke