whelk
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English[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /wɛlk/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (without the wine–whine merger) IPA(key): /hwɛlk/
- Rhymes: -ɛlk
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- (“to turn, revolve”) (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.[1]
Noun[edit]
whelk (plural whelks)
- Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
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Translations[edit]
edible sea snail of the family Buccinidae
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Etymology 2[edit]
From Middle English whelke, from Old English hwelca (“pustule, swelling”).
Noun[edit]
whelk (plural whelks)
- (archaic) Pimple.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
- his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs
- A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
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References[edit]
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “whelk”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Further reading[edit]
- whelk on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Buccinidae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Buccinidae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
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