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cock-a-leekie

Noun

cock-a-leek=ie

WORDNET DICTIONARY

cock-a-leekie(n = noun.food) cocky-leeky - soup made from chicken boiled with leeks; Array

is a kind of soup

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]

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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