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COCK-A-LEEKIE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cock-a-leekie mean?
• COCK-A-LEEKIE (noun)
The noun COCK-A-LEEKIE has 1 sense:
1. soup made from chicken boiled with leeks
Familiarity information: COCK-A-LEEKIE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Soup made from chicken boiled with leeks
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Synonyms:
cock-a-leekie; cocky-leeky
Hypernyms ("cock-a-leekie" is a kind of...):
soup (liquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food)
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