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whelkEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
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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From Middle English whelke, from Old English hwelca (“pustule, swelling”).
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Chambers (1908)
1908- WhelkEnglish · e-38700-9288
Whelk, hwelk, n. a popular name for a number of marine Gasteropods, especially applied to species of Buccinum common on the coasts of northern seas.—adjs. Whelked, ridged like a whelk; Whel′ky, knobby, rounded. [Wrong fo
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Whelk, hwelk, n. (Shak.) the mark of a stripe on the body, a wrinkle, an inequality or protuberance. [Weal, wheal.]
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