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ˌbubble-and-ˈsqueak
[f. bubble v. + squeak v., referring to the sounds made in cooking this dish.]
1. a. A dish of meat and cabbage fried up together, ‘cold meat fried in butter with vegetables’. Nowadays potatoes and other vegetables are often used instead of meat.
1772T. Bridges Burlesque Trans. of Homer: Iliad xi. 507 We therefore cooked him up a dish Of lean bull-beef, with cabbage fry'd,..Bubble, they call this dish, and squeak. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar Tongue, Bubble and Squeak, beef and cabbage fried together. 1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Wks. 1812 I. 192 What mortals Bubble call and Squeak When midst the Frying-pan in accents savage, The Beef so surly quarrels with the Cabbage. 1824Bryon Juan xv. lxxi, ‘Bubble and squeak’ would spoil my liquid lay. 1855Browning Holy-Cross Day, Bubble and squeak! Blessedest Thursday's the fat of the week. 1881Leicester. Gloss. (E.D.S.) Bubble-and-squeak, slices of underdone beef fried and seasoned, laid on cabbage, boiled, strained, chopped, and fried in dripping. 1951Good Housek. Home Encycl. 373/2 In the modern version of bubble and squeak the meat is usually omitted.
b. transf. and fig.
1927T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 509, I can make the most lovely bubble and squeak of a life for myself. 1960Times 17 Sept. 9/4 The battle of the organs—British boom versus baroque bubble-and-squeak.
2. Rhyming slang for (a) beak n.3; (b) Greek n. 1 a; also ellipt. bubble.
1935Curtis & Wallace Mouthpiece i. 16 You ought to have heard him talking to the old bubble and squeak. 1938Partridge Dict. Slang Add. 983/1 Bubble and squeak, a Greek. 1962R. Cook Crust on its Uppers i. 20 All the best Anglo-Saxon grafters come from mine [sc. my school], and the Bubbles and the Indians from the other. Ibid. Gloss., Bubble = bubble-and-squeak = Greek. 1968L. Berg Risinghill 106 ‘Why do they call Greek children ‘Bubbles’?’ said Mr. Colinides to me... Later it dawned on me that it was short for ‘bubble-and-squeak’; rhyming slang. |