BUBBLE AND SQUEAK
\bˈʌbə͡l and skwˈiːk], \bˈʌbəl and skwˈiːk], \b_ˈʌ_b_əl a_n_d s_k_w_ˈiː_k]\
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A dish consisting of fried beef and cabbage: probably so called from the sounds made during frying. Sometimes also used contemptuously for something specious, deceptive, worthless. "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."-Lord Lytten.
By Daniel Lyons
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Platidiam
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