Pippin vs Cockle - What's the difference?
pippin | cockle |
Any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red
Any of several roundish or oblate apple varieties
An apple tree raised from a seed (not grafted)
Any of various edible European bivalve mollusks, of the family Cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells.
The shell of such a mollusk.
(in the plural) One’s innermost feelings (only in the expression “the cockles of one’s heart”).
(directly from French coquille) A wrinkle, pucker
(by extension) A defect in sheepskin; firm dark nodules caused by the bites of keds on live sheep
(mining, UK, Cornwall) The mineral black tourmaline or schorl.
(UK) The fire chamber of a furnace.
(UK) A kiln for drying hops; an oast.
(UK) The dome of a heating furnace.
To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.
As nouns the difference between pippin and cockle
is that pippin is a seed or pippin can be any of several varieties of eating apple that have a yellow or green skin with patches of red while cockle is any of various edible european bivalve mollusks, of the family cardiidae, having heart-shaped shells or cockle can be any of several field weeds, such as the corncockle, , and lolium temulentum .As a verb cockle is
to cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting; to pucker.pippin
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) pipin, from (etyl) ). See pip.Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) , as being raised from the seed.Noun
(en noun)cockle
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(wikipedia cockle) (en noun)- (Raymond)
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