cockle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɒkl̩/    美 /ˈkɑk(ə)l/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
    — 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. Any of several field weeds, such as the common corncockle (Agrostemma githago) and darnel ryegrass (Lolium temulentum).
    — 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.
  3. A £10 note; a tenner. Cockney,slang
  4. The shell of such a mollusk.
  5. A wrinkle, pucker
  6. A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep broadly
  7. Chiefly in cockles of someone's heart: a person's innermost feelings. figuratively,in-plural
  8. The dome of a heating furnace. UK
  9. The fire chamber of a furnace. UK
  10. A kiln for drying hops; an oast. UK
  11. The mineral black tourmaline or schorl. Cornwall,UK
动词 v.
  1. To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker. transitive
  2. To wobble, shake; to be unsteady. Midlands,Northern-England,Scotland
    — Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.

词形变化

cockles plural cockles present,singular,third-person cockling participle,present cockled participle,past cockled past cockles plural cockles present,singular,third-person cockling participle,present cockled participle,past cockled past cockles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
blood cockle cockle-bread cockleman cockler cockleshell cocklestove cockle wife cocklewoman cockly common cockle corn cockle corncockle earcockle ear cockle hot cockles moulding of cockle bread warm the cockles of someone's heart
相关词
scallop

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English cockil, cokil, cokylle, from Old English coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).
词源 3
Origin uncertain.
词源 4
Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.
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