Noun: cockle
| Singular | cockle |
| Plural | cockles |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1990, Dido Davies, Andrew Davies, William Gerhardie: A Biography, page 164:]
Nouns inflected like cockle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
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. See: Middle English Nouns '
cokel', Middle English Nouns '
cokke', Old English Nouns '
cocc', Ancient Greek Nouns '
κογχύλιον'.
Verbs referencing "cockle"
Dutch Nouns
kokkel, Greek Nouns
κοχύλι.