cockle-bread
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.34 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When St. Bernard founded his abbey, near Clairvaux, he and his thirteen companions lived on barley, or cockle-bread, with boiled beech leaves as vegetables, while they were employed grubbing up the forest, and in building huts for their habitation."
- "Fair maiden, white and red, Comb me smooth and stroke my head, And though shalt have some cockle-bread."
- "The very homely pastime of cockle-bread may, or may not, have been named from this foreign cake, but need not here be further alluded to."
- "A European custom had young women prepare "cockle-bread," a food intended to excite men's passion, by sitting on dough and wiggling around to knead it, sometimes reciting a rhyme in the process ("Up with my heels and down with my head/And this is the way to mould cockle-bread" is an example)."
- "They recall the much later English 'cockle bread', one of many methods used by girls to divine the names of their future husbands."