Definitions for leeks

leeks leek

Spelling: [leek]
IPA: /lik/

Leeks is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in leeks (eekls).

Definitions for leeks

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 leeks

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

Examples for leeks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for leeks
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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