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spag bol

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Etymology edit

1970s,[1] of uncertain origin, perhaps UK or Australia.

Pronunciation edit

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Noun edit

spag bol (usually uncountable, plural spag bols)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of spaghetti bolognese.
    • 2019, Pete Brown, Pie Fidelity: In Defence of British Food‎[1], Penguin, →ISBN:
      At the time I started making it, it didn't seem unusual to me that my spag bol was constituted from the contents of tins and jars—pretty much everything we ate back then was.

References edit

  1. ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “spag bol”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volumes 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1824.
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