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Definition of Bubble and squeak
1. Noun. Leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat.
Geographical relationships: Britain, Great Britain, U.k., Uk, United Kingdom, United Kingdom Of Great Britain And Northern Ireland
Definition of Bubble and squeak
1. Noun. (British NZ) Cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together ¹
2. Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (''also:'' bubble) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bubble And Squeak
Literary usage of Bubble and squeak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed Upon Principles of Economy and by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1824)
"Bubble and Squeak. Boil, chop, and fry, with a little butter, pepper and salt,
some cabbage, and lay on it slices of underdone beef, lightly fried. VEAL. ..."
2. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872)
"What is bubble-and-squeak ? Some of you have only heard of it metaphorically,
... But with us bubble- and-squeak was no metaphor, it was an awful reality. ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"Bubble and Squeak : a Gallimaufry of British Beef with the Chopp'd Cabbage of Gallic
... 'Crambe Repe- tita, a Second Course of Bubble and Squeak ' (anon. ..."
4. The Godey's Lady's Book Receipts and Household Hints by Sarah Annie Frost (1870)
"bubble and squeak.—Take from a round of cold, boiled beef, one pound and a half
of meat cut in thin slices, two carrots which have been boiled with the meat ..."
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