whelk

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
  2. Pimple. archaic
    — his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs
  3. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

词形变化

whelks plural welk alternative whilk alternative wilk alternative,obsolete whelks plural welk alternative whilk alternative wilk alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
whelky chin whelk

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
From Middle English whelke, from Old English hwelca (“pustule, swelling”).
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