Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A soup made with chicken broth and leeks.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as cockieleekie.
Wiktionary
- n. a chicken soup boiled with leeks
WordNet 3.0
- n. soup made from chicken boiled with leeks
Etymologies
- alteration of the diminutives cockie (from cock) + leekie (from leek) (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of cockie, diminutive of cock1 + leekie, diminutive of leek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“And the Scotsman, he ordered a bowl of cock-a-leekie soup ...”
“Name another country that festoons its traditional dishes with names like bubble and squeak, deviled bones, spotted dick, cock-a-leekie soup, clouty dumplings, and toad-in-the-hole.”
“The cock-a-leekie soup was his culinary magnum opus.”
“And the Scotsman, he ordered a bowl of cock-a-leekie soup . . .”
““Even Bess knows I like to caramelize shallots for cock-a-leekie soup,” he said.”
“After which he let the young man simmer gently for five minutes, like so much reheated cock-a-leekie.”
“A huge pot of milky cock-a-leekie soup was burbling on the back of the cooker.”
“And so, with the assistance of Jenny, ten pails of milk from the dairy shed, three chickens caught from the coop, and four dozen large leeks from the kailyard, I presided over the preparation of cock-a-leekie soup and roasted potatoes for the laird and tenants of Lallybroch.”
“The meal - which I suppose we must call dinner, though it was nearer tea time - was cock-a-leekie soup, and hot roast turkey, and a steamed pudding, and roast chestnuts, and as much fruit as you could eat.”
“Whether you're a fan of bisque or borscht, French onion or oxtail, chowder or cock-a-leekie, there's no denying the soothing feeling of a warm bowl of soup.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cock-a-leekie’.
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Hyphen Nation
Terms with multiple hyphens, such as rent-a-crowd. Not intended to be a see-how-many-words-one-can-string-together-with-hyphens-used-adjectively sort of list.
much-talked-of, vis-à-vis, tête-à-tête, rope-a-dope, will-o'-the-wisp, dick-a-tuesday, will-in-the-wisp, jack-o'-lantern, jack-with-a-lantern, ear-to-ear, whack-a-mole, no-man's-land and 205 more...
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•Words We Use Here That Would Tick Of...
Or, Things That Get a Whole Lot More Fun With an -ie Ending.
See conversation on git, and have at it!
Edit: Many of the following are madeupical, but many are not. See als...wordie, foodie, roadie, cookie, prosie, poetrie, tunie, scriptie, democracie, pompous old gittie, funnie, hippie and 156 more...
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Words that sound dirty but aren't.
When you want to be pedantic AND childish.
titular, masticate, condiment, titmouse, penal, formication, social intercourse, assassination, cacophony, lucubrate, rectify, banal and 131 more...
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Fun Food Names
spaghettini, mutton, bratwurst, zabaglione, sweet potato pie, succotash, slumgullion, bouillabaisse, hush puppy, gumbo, jambalaya, mahimahi and 126 more...
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Not Quite As Awful As They Sound
masticate, absquatulate, adumbrate, afflatus, fetial, anile, bilabial, cineaste, smew, copse, piebald, testudinate and 156 more...
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On The Menu
diver scallop, grilled porcini, lavender-fennel p..., roasted cranberri..., carmelized walnut..., cardamom-molasses..., bittersweet choco..., rosemary flatbread, eggplant veloute, fennel gratin, rollmops, jugged hare and 122 more...
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Hyphenated Actual Words
These kind of stun me whenever I see them. Language is just so cool.
chuck-will's-widow, will-o-the-wisp, saw-whet, topsy-turvy, linsey-woolsey, ne'er-do-well, gung-ho, so-so, cul-de-sac, fleur-de-lys, service-berry, major-domo and 33 more...
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Scottish Food and Drink Words
haggis, neep, tatty, cranachan, crowdie, crowdie-time, Scotch broth, Scotch egg, cock-a-leekie, cockieleekie, skirlie, collop and 20 more...
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perhapsolutely's Words
polyradiculoneuro..., abulia, abubble, abscission, abaft, zareba, abatis, abigail, abiogenesis, ablate, ablaut, abo and 1705 more...
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soup words
soup words
gazpacho, minestrone, consomme, avgolemono, chowder, bouillabaisse, borscht, bouillon, mulligatawny, vichyssoise, albondigas, bisque and 47 more...
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foodie
hush puppy, étouffée, cock-a-leekie, crumpet, gado gado, gumbo, haggis, hominy, hoppin' john, jambalaya, schchi, vichyssoise and 31 more...
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peculiar bygones
zounds, beswike, chemise, corsetry, fardle, git, sot, bugger, pannier, busker, scullion, urchin and 22 more...
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