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whelk

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5 lettersPronunciation /wɛlk/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ehklwStarts with WEnds with K0 clues
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Definitions

  1. gather whelk

Word 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.

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  • his face is all bubukles , and whelks , and knobs

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