cockle
Meaning of cockle
- 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- (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 cockle
- The plural form of cockle is: cockles.
- Languages in which cockle is used:
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Hyphenation of cockle
cockle
- It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
- cockle is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
cockle synonyms
Meaning ripple:
ripple, ruffle, riffle, undulate
Meaning pucker:
Translation of cockle
- French: demoiselle, coque, rigadeau, bucarde, sourdon, hénon, maillot
- Spanish: berberecho
- Portuguese: berbigão
- Italian: cuori, cardidi
Words that rhyme with cockle
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