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- French · derived fromhautes-coquilles
- English todayhot cockles
From French hautes-coquilles. Compare French main chaude (“hot hand”), referring to the same game. By surface analysis, hot + cockle.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
hot cockles
Today it means: a children's game in which a blindfolded person had to guess who was hitting them. Full definition →
French hautes-coquilles