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  1. warm the cockles of someone's heart love

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  1. v. idiomatic To provide happiness, to bring a deeply-felt contentment

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  1. Unknown, possibly derived either from the similarity in appearance of the heart valves to the cockle, a bivalve mollusk of the family Cardiidae or from a misuse of the medieval Latin word for heart - cochleae cordis. An Irish Gaelic origin has been suggested. (Wiktionary)

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