cockles
Meaning of cockles
- an edible burrowing bivalve mollusc with a strong ribbed shell.
- a small, shallow boat.
Middle English: from Old French coquille ‘shell’, based on Greek konkhulion, from konkhē ‘conch’.
verb, 3rd person present- (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.
- Languages in which cockles is used:
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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
Words that rhyme with cockles
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