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cock-a-leekie

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cock-a-leek=ie

CIDE DICTIONARY

cock-a-leekien. [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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