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whelk

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15
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/wɛlk/
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/wɛlk/ · /hwɛlk · ʍɛlk/

Definition of whelk

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
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noun

  1. Certain edible sea snails, especially, any one of numerous species of large marine gastropods belonging to Buccinidae, much used as food in Europe.
  2. (archaic)Pimple.
    “his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs”
  3. A stripe or mark; a ridge; a wale.

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Etymology

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.

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