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cockles of one heart

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cock⋅le

1  [kok-uhl] noun, verb, -led, -ling.
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–noun
1. any bivalve mollusk of the genus Cardium, having somewhat heart-shaped, radially ribbed valves, esp. 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: a cockle in fabric.
5. a small, crisp candy of sugar and flour, bearing a motto.
–verb (used without object)
6. to contract into wrinkles; pucker: This paper cockles easily.
7. to rise in short, irregular waves; ripple: The waves cockled along the shore.
–verb (used with object)
8. to cause to wrinkle, pucker, or ripple: The wind cockled the water.
—Idiom
9. cockles of one's heart, the depths of one's emotions or feelings: The happy family scene warmed the cockles of his heart.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME cokille < MF coqille < VL *cocchīlia, L conchylia, pl. of conchȳlium < Gk konchȳ́lion, equiv. to konchȳ́l(ē) mussel + -ion dim. suffix; cf. OE -cocc, in sǣ-cocc lit., sea-cockle < VL *coccus for L concha conch
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Word Origin & History

cockle 
1311, "mollusk," from O.Fr. coquille "a blister, shell, cockle," alt. by infl. of cock, from L. conchylium, from Gk. konkhylion "little shellfish," from konkhe "mussel, conch." Phrase cockles of the heart (1669) is perhaps from similar shape, or from L. corculum, dim. of cor "heart." Unrelated O.E. coccel was the name of a flowering weed that grows in wheatfields and was used in M.E. to translate the Bible word now usually given as tares. It is in no other Gmc. language and may be from a dim. of L. coccus "grain, berry."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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