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 leekcock-a-leekie
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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 leekTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural cock-a-leekies)
- a chicken soup boiled with leeks
Origin
alteration of the diminutives cockie (from cock) + leekie (from leek)
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