boiled dinner

1. 1.

   corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables

   SynonymsNew England boiled dinner

   Broaderdish

Questions about boiled dinner

What does boiled dinner mean?

boiled dinner means "corned beef simmered with onions and cabbage and usually other vegetables".

What is another word for boiled dinner?

Close synonyms include New England boiled dinner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is boiled dinner a common word?

boiled dinner is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.