cock-a-leekie

1. 1.

   soup made from chicken boiled with leeks

   Synonymscocky-leeky

   Broadersoup

Questions about cock-a-leekie

What does cock-a-leekie mean?

cock-a-leekie means "soup made from chicken boiled with leeks".

How many syllables are in cock-a-leekie?

cock-a-leekie has 4 syllables and divides as coc-k-a--lee-kie under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cock-a-leekie?

Close synonyms include cocky-leeky. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.