Thursday, October 27, 2005

it's a cold day here

and i was woefully under-dressed for most of it. i just got home, and as i climbed into my warm fluffy bed for a well-deserved nap, this phrase sprang to mind:

"it warms the cockles of my heart"

which led to the inevitable question:

what is a cockle, anyways?

this, it turns out, is a cockle



cock·le
1. Any of various bivalve mollusks of the family Cardiidae, having rounded or heart-shaped shells with radiating ribs.
2. The shell of a cockle.
3. A wrinkle; a pucker.
4. Nautical. A cockleshell.

perhaps they're referring to definition #3: it warms the little folds and creases of one's heart. i'm not sure, exactly.

but i do know this: it's good to be home.

4 comments:

hiroshi ryan said...

I have to ask: which dictionary did you use to find the definition?

Anonymous said...

I have to ask: which dictionary did you use to find the definition? ?

amanda said...

why, dictionary.com, of course!

Anonymous said...

Excellent. And when something is amazingly, astoundingly heart-warming, you can say it warms the cockles and the sub-cockles of your heart.