whelk
pronunciation
How to pronounce whelk in British English:
UK [welk]
How to pronounce whelk in American English:
US [hwɛlk, wɛlk]
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- Noun:
- large marine snail much used as food in Europe
- large carnivorous marine gastropods of coastal waters and intertidal regions having a strong snail-like shell
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- Verb:
- gather whelk
Word Origin
- whelk (n.)
- marine snail with a spiral shell, Old English weoloc, wioloc, from Proto-Germanic *weluka- (cognates: Middle Dutch willoc, Dutch wulk), perhaps from PIE root *wel- (3) "to turn, revolve" (see volvox; also volute). The unetymological spelling with wh- dates from 15c.
Example
- 1. So far , it has been more than 80 countries , 500 million whelk patients use .
- 2. Is the thing that looks like acne prickly heat , be also whelk what is that ?
- 3. Alaska crab claw , shrimp , scallop green whelk and mussel .
- 4. Hairdressing application : silver-colored hua youqing heats up antiphlogistic action , the treatment that can be used at blister of whelk , face , compressed wart to wait .
- 5. Instead , companies are too often controlled not by titans of the boardroom , but shadowy hedge fund managers , faceless critics and corporate governance experts who have never run so much as a whelk stall .