cockle
Word family adjectivecocklednouncocklingcocklemancockleshellcockleburcockle
cock·le /ˈkɒkəl $ ˈkɑː-/ noun [countableC] 2 warm the cockles of somebody’s heart especially British EnglishBrEHAPPY to make someone feel happy and full of good feelings towards other people 使某人由衷地感到高兴 Seeing her new baby just warms the cockles of your heart. 看到她那刚出生的宝宝,你会打心眼里感到高兴。
warm the cockles of somebody’s heart• It warms the cockles of my female heart to know that such womanly wiles still continue to manipulate and convince. cockle• The 40-strong group started loading bags of cockles, which can fetch up to £12 a time, on to a lorry.• Yesterday, as the group of cockle pickers went about their business, police said there had been no further incidents.• In the Wash oystercatchers are innocent victims of the collapse of the estuary's cockle fishery.• It houses sea snails, cockles, mussels, large fish, squid, cuttlefish, octopuses, shrimps and crabs. Origin cockle (1300-1400) French coquille “shell”, from
Latin conchylia, from
Greek, from
konche;
→ CONCH