Definitions for leek

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Spelling: [leek]
IPA: /lik/

Leek is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 18 anagrams from letters in leek (eekl).

Definitions for leek

noun

  1. a plant, Allium ampeloprasum, of the amaryllis family, allied to the onion, having a cylindrical bulb and leaves used in cookery.
  2. any of various allied species.

Origin of leek

before 1000; Middle English; Old English lēac; cognate with German Lauch, Old Norse laukr

Examples for leek

There must be half a mile of fluff over it in this weather, but it does not affect The leek.

I say, I will make him eat some part of my leek, or I will peat his pate four days.

By this leek, I will most horribly revenge: I eat and eat, I swear.

Prasiosmus means smelling like a leek; from, prason, a leek.

leek with his large truck of holly was somewhere on the road.

The snow was above the wheels: leek could neither get on nor turn back.

Place the beans, water, onion and leek in a large saucepan and place on the fire.

Eat, I pray you: Will you have some more sauce to your leek?

Theirs the leek and the garlic; his to sit at the sumptuous feast.

He had the rice to give consistency to his soup, and the leek roots to flavour it with.

Word Value for leek
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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