bubble and squeak n.2
1. a schoolmaster [beak n.1 (5)].
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2. a magistrate [beak n.1 (1)].
![]() | DSUE (8th edn) 143/1: late C.19–20. |
3. chatter, small talk [bubble (and squeak) v.].
![]() | (con. c.1944) One Last Look 82: Small Talk [...] Bubble and squeak. |
4. a Greek.
![]() | Dict. of Rhy. Sl. 44/1: bubble and squeak (1) Greek [...] In use before 1914. | |
![]() | Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 19: Bubble and Squeak Greek. | |
![]() | Wolfman 69: ‘I’ve seen a lot of bubbles coming out of it.’ [...] ‘Bubble and squeak,’ he said. Then a pause. ‘Greeks, right?’. | |
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![]() | More Bible in Cockney 101: His old man was a Bubble-and-squeak. | |
![]() | Prison Diaries 359: Del tries to improve my rhyming slang knowledge. [...] I love ‘bubble and squeak’ for Greek. |
5. a creek.
![]() | Territory 446: You take the drive-me-silly and go down to the bubble-and-squeak and get some mother-and-daughter, and I’ll light the Molly Maguire and we’ll have some Gypsy Lee. |
6. a week.
![]() | Fletcher’s Book of Rhy. Sl. | |
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![]() | Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl. |
7. (Aus.) an act of urination [ = leak n. (2)].
![]() | Pete’s Aussie Sl. Home Page 🌐 bubble and squeak: a leak, to urinate. | |
![]() | Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. |