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cock-a-leekie

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Scot. a soup made by boiling chicken with leeks

Origin of cock-a-leekie

variant, variety of cocky-leeky from cocky, diminutive of cock + leeky, diminutive of leek


cock-a-leekie

also cock·a·leek·ie

noun

A soup made with chicken broth and leeks.

Origin of cock-a-leekie

Alteration of cockie diminutive of cock 1 leekie diminutive of leek


cock-a-leekie

Noun

(uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of cock-a-leekie.
Noun

(plural cock-a-leekies)

  1. a chicken soup boiled with leeks
Origin

alteration of the diminutives cockie (from cock) + leekie (from leek)


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