- a small shellfish that can be eatenTopics Fish and shellfishc2Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French coquille ‘shell’, based on Greek konkhulion, from konkhē ‘conch’.
Idioms
See cockle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarywarm the cockles (of somebody’s heart)
- (British English) to make somebody feel happy or sympathetic
- Doesn’t that story just warm the cockles of your heart?
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