cockles

Meaning of cockles

plural noun
  1. an edible burrowing bivalve mollusc with a strong ribbed shell.
  2. a small, shallow boat.

Middle English: from Old French coquille ‘shell’, based on Greek konkhulion, from konkhē ‘conch’.

verb, 3rd person present
  1. (of paper) form wrinkles or puckers.
    thin or lightweight paper cockles and warps when subjected to watercolour

mid 16th century: from French coquiller ‘blister (bread in cooking)’, from coquille ‘shell’ (see cockle1).

Information about cockles

  • The singular form of cockles is: cockle.
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Hyphenation of cockles

cock-les

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • cockles is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

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