noun
leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat
• Regions: ↑United Kingdom, ↑UK, ↑U.K., ↑Britain, ↑United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, ↑Great Britain
• Hypernyms: ↑dish
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noun [noncount]
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a type of British food made from cold cooked potatoes and ↑cabbage that are mixed together and fried
Word Origin:
[bubble and squeak] late 18th cent.: from the sounds of the mixture cooking.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.