whelk
a whelk shell
Meaning
Noun
- Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
- Pimple
- A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.
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Origin
- From Middle English whelke, a variant of welk, from Old English weoloc, wiloc, wioloc, weluc, from Proto-West Germanic *weluk (compare Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welH- ("to turn, revolve") (whence vulva and volute). Unetymological spelling with wh- from the 15th century.
- From Middle English whelke, from Old English hwelca.
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