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bubble and squeaks

bubble and squeaks is the plural of bubble and squeak.

Meaning of bubble and squeak

Noun

bubble and squeak (countable and uncountable, plural bubble and squeaks)

  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK) 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!”1853, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VIII, in “My Novel”; Or Varieties in English Life […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book...
  2. (Cockney, slang) A Greek.
    Synonyms:
    bubble

Questions about bubble and squeaks

What is bubble and squeaks the plural of?
Bubble and squeaks is the plural of bubble and squeak.

Words near bubble and squeaks in the dictionary

  1. bubbie
  2. bubbies
  3. bubbing
  4. bubble
  5. bubble and squeak
  6. bubble and squeaks
  7. bubble ass
  8. bubble asses
  9. bubble baby disease
  10. bubble baby syndrome
  11. bubble bath

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