- warm the cockles (of someone's heart)
- warm the cockles (of someone’s heart) old-fashioned phraseto make someone feel pleased and happyThesaurus: to make someone happy or happiersynonymMain entry: cockle
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warm the cockles (of someone's heart)
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warm the cockles of someone's heart — verb To provide happiness, to bring a deeply felt contentment, possibly derived from the similarity in appearance of the heart valves to the cockle, a bivalve mollusk of the family Cardiidae. Syn: warm someones heart See Also: heart warming … Wiktionary
cockle — UK [ˈkɒk(ə)l] / US [ˈkɑk(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms cockle : singular cockle plural cockles a small European shellfish • warm the cockles (of someone s heart) old fashioned to make someone feel pleased and happy … English dictionary
cockle — cockle1 [käk′əl] n. [ME cokel < OFr coquille, a blister, shell, cockle, altered (infl. by coq, COCK1) < L conchylium < Gr konchylion, shellfish < konchē: see CONCH] 1. any of a family (Cardiidae) of edible, marine bivalve mollusks… … English World dictionary
cockle — cock|le [ kakl ] noun count a small European SHELLFISH (=a sea animal with a hard shell) warm the cockles (of someone s heart) OLD FASHIONED to make someone feel pleased and happy … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
cockle — cock|le [ˈkɔkəl US ˈka: ] n [Date: 1300 1400; : French; Origin: coquille shell , from Latin conchylia, from Greek, from konche; CONCH] 1.) a common European ↑shellfish that is used for food 2.) warm the cockles of sb s heart … Dictionary of contemporary English
cockle — noun (C) 1 a common European shellfish that is often used for food 2 warm the cockles of sb s heart to make someone feel happy and full of good feelings towards other people: Seeing her delight in her new baby just warms the cockles of your heart … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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