bubble and squeak

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   leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat

   Broaderdish

   United Kingdom

Questions about bubble and squeak

What does bubble and squeak mean?

bubble and squeak means "leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat".

Is bubble and squeak a common word?

bubble and squeak 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.