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語源 1

From 中期英語 cokel, cokkel, kokkel, cocle, of uncertain origin. Perhaps a diminutive of 中期英語 cokke, cok (“cockle”), from 古期英語 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.

名詞

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.

派生語

参考

• scallop

動詞

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.

語源 2

From 中期英語 cockil, cokil, cokylle, from 古期英語 coccel (“darnel”), of unknown origin, perhaps from a diminutive of Latin coccus (“berry”).

名詞

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.

同意語

• (Lolium temulentum): darnel, false wheat

関連する語

参考

• cheat
• ryegrass
• tare
• vetch

語源 3

Origin uncertain.

動詞

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.

語源 4

Rhyming slang, from cock and hen for ten.

名詞

cockle (plural cockles)

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

参照

アナグラム

• Elcock, clocke