Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. Alternative form of cock-a-leekie.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A favorite soup in Scotland, made from a capon highly seasoned, and boiled with leeks and prunes; -- called also
cocky-leeky .
Examples
“Anyone who stockpiled their vodka collection ahead of yesterday’s savage increases in alcohol duties will probably be feeling a little rough this morning; and so too will Alastair Darling, I suspect, even if he carried on drinking tap water through the evening, as he did at the despatch box, and confined himself to a bowl of thin cockaleekie for his supper.”
“A tinker’s bann and a barrow to boil his billy for Gipsy Lee; a cartridge of cockaleekie soup for Chummy the Guardsman; for sulky Pen-der’s acid nephew delto ‹ d drops, curiously strong; a cough and”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cockaleekie’.
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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eek!
cleek, leek, reek, sleek, eek, cheek, fenugreek, greek, creek, meek, geek, week and 7 more...
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Words that sound dirty, but aren't
Inspired by a Candid Camera sketch.
horehound, fugue, ramrod, jocular, thespian, titmouse, masticate, pussyfoot, angina, booby, formicate, hoar and 64 more...
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bilby A Scottish soup made from bird corpses and leeks. Dec 27, 2007