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Meaning of bubble and squeak | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. Cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together.
    Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable
  2. A Greek.
    Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable

Examples

““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!””
““Better have it—better have it first. No hurry. What've you got in the pot that smells so good?” “Bubble and squeak, sir.” “Bubble and squeak! Ah!” And with those words the agent withdrew to where, in a farm wagon drawn up by the side of the road, three men were solemnly pulling at their pipes.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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