bubble and squeak

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bubble and squeak

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(food): Named from the sounds during cooking.

noun bubble and squeaks

Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable Cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together. “But if she had rank and title?” “Rank and title! Bubble and squeak! No, not half so good as bubble and squeak. English beef and good cabbage. But foreign rank and title!—foreign cabbage and beef!—foreign bubble and foreign squeak!”
Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable A Greek.
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@misc{bubble_and_squeak_2026,
  title = {bubble and squeak},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bubble%20and%20squeak},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}