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cock's eggs |
cock's-eggs |
cock-a-doodle-doo |
cock-a-hoop |
cock-a-leekie
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| cock-of-the-rock
| cock-paddle
| cockade
cock-a-leekie
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cock-a-leekie has 1 sense
- cock-a-leekie(n = noun.food) cocky-leeky - soup made from chicken boiled with leeks; Array is a kind of soup
CIDE DICTIONARY
cock-a-leekie, n. [From cock + leek.].
A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also cocky-leeky . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cock-a-leekie, n. (also cocky-leeky) a soup traditionally made in Scotland with boiling fowl and leeks.
Etymology
COCK(1) + LEEK
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