Meaning

2 senses
  1. (Commonwealth, Ireland, UK, countable, uncountable)Cabbage and mashed potatoes etc. fried together.

    leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat

  2. (Cockney, countable, slang, uncountable)A Greek.

Origin

(food): Named from the sounds during cooking.

(food): Named from the sounds during cooking.

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Forms

plural: bubble and squeaks

Synonyms

1 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
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See also

neighbours in the dictionary

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