His wife, a small woman who walked always on high heels, borrowed Gerhardie's primus stove several times a day to cook her husband gargantuan meals of cockles, mussels, snails, and other such unpalatables.
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Cockle
//ˈkɒkl̩//
Synonyms for "cockle" (39 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (19)
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3 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
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33 entriesShowing 16 of 33 words.
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1 entriesTranslations
56 translations across 27 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- къклица noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
- сърцевидна мида noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Catalan
3 entries- escopinya noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- escopinya noun (shell of the cockle)
- niella noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 泥蚶 noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Dutch
4 entries- hartschelp noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- hartschelp noun (shell of the cockle)
- hartschelp noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
- kokhaan noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Finnish
2 entries- sydänsimpukan kuori noun (shell of the cockle)
- sydänsimpukka noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
French
2 entries- coque noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- ivraie enivrante noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
Galician
2 entries- berberecho noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- croque noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
German
1 entries- Herzmuschel noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Greek
2 entries- κοχύλι noun (shell of the cockle)
- στρείδι noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Hungarian
2 entries- kagyló noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- szívkagyló noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Irish
4 entries- báisín noun (shell of the cockle)
- cogal noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
- gruán noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- ruacan noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Italian
1 entries- loglio noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
Japanese
2 entries- ドクムギ noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
- 笊貝 noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Korean
1 entries- 꼬막 noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Malay
1 entries- kerang noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Maltese
1 entries- arzella noun (shell of the cockle)
Māori
1 entries- tuangi noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Navajo
1 entries- chʼosh bitsʼaʼí dijoolígíí noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Norman
1 entries- chuchette noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- hjertemusling noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- hjerteskjell noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- طراق noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Polish
1 entries- sercówka noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Portuguese
2 entries- berbigão noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- joio noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
Russian
1 entries- сердцеви́дка noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Scottish Gaelic
4 entries- coilleag noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- coilleag noun (shell of the cockle)
- srùban noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- srùban noun (shell of the cockle)
Spanish
3 entries- berberecho noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
- cizaña noun (any of several weeds, such as the corn cockle)
- coquina noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Ukrainian
1 entries- серцеви́дка noun (any of various edible European bivalve mollusks)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
But cockle, spurge, according to their law / Might propagate their kind, with none to awe, / You'd think; a burr had been a treasure trove.
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Israel Wilde arrived last, his ankle swollen and already berry-blue after cockling at the top of Hatherself Scout.
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