sappatoti -> RE: What a Crock (9/24/2008 12:13:37 PM)
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ORIGINAL: cjan Guranteed to warm your cockles what the hell is a cockle? The Oxford American dictionary saith: cock-le 1 |ˈkäkəl| noun 1 an edible, burrowing bivalve mollusk with a strong ribbed shell. • Genus Cardium, family Cardiidae. 2 (also cock-le-shell) poetic/literary a small shallow boat. PHRASES warm the cockles of one's heart give one a comforting feeling of pleasure or contentment. ORIGIN Middle English : from Old French coquille ‘shell,’ based on Greek konkhulion, from konkhē ‘conch.’ cock-le 2 verb [ intrans. ] (of paper) bulge out in certain places so as to present a wrinkled or creased surface; pucker. ORIGIN mid 16th cent.: from French coquiller ‘blister (bread in cooking),’ from coquille ‘shell’ (see cockle 1 ).
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