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Cockles

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To cry cockles. To be hanged; from the gurgling noise made in strangulation.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Cock your Hat (To)
Cockade
Cockaigne (Land of)
Cockatrice
Cocked Hat (A)
Cocked-hat Club (The)
Cocker
Cockie or Cocky
Cockle Hat
Cockle Shells
Cockles
Cockles of the Heart
Cockledemoy (A)
Cockney
Cockney School
Cockpit of Europe
Cockshy (A)
Cockswain
Cocktail
Cocqcigrues
Cocytus [Ko-kytus]