Definitions for cockles

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cockles cock·le

Spelling: [kok-uh l]

IPA: /ˈkɒk əl/

Cockles is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in cockles (cceklos).

Definitions for cockles

noun

1. any bivalve mollusk of the genus Cardium, having somewhat heart-shaped, radially ribbed valves, especially C. edule, the common edible species of Europe.
2. any of various allied or similar mollusks.
3. cockleshell (defs 1, 2).
4. a wrinkle; pucker:
5. a small, crisp candy of sugar and flour, bearing a motto.
6. a weed, as the darnel Lolium temulentum, or rye grass, L. perenne.

Idioms

1. cockles of one's heart, the depths of one's emotions or feelings:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple:

verb (used without object)

1. to contract into wrinkles; pucker:
2. to rise in short, irregular waves; ripple:

Origin of cockles

1350-1400; Middle English cokille Middle French coqille Vulgar Latin *cocchīlia, Latin conchylia, plural of conchȳlium Greek konchȳ́lion, equivalent to konchȳ́l(ē) mussel + -ion diminutive

Examples for cockles

His reception by the natives was not of a nature to warm the cockles of his heart.

They feed upon a few fish, cockles, mussels, and periwinkles.

For doing so, I was likened in comments to Josef Mengele, a comparison that warmed the cockles of my gay, half-Jewish heart.

The purl warms the cockles of Tom's heart, and makes him cough.

Curry soup that will astonish him, and warm the cockles of his heart, mind.'

I've got something on hand that'll warm the cockles of your heart.

There are also in some places great store of mussels and cockles.

Your flesh has never been made to creep: but the cockles of your heart have been warmed.

The "cockles of the heart" is a common expression in Anglo-Irish.

He had a greeting from the fans that warmed the cockles of his heart.