spag bol
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
1970s,[1] of uncertain origin, perhaps UK or Australia.
Pronunciation
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
spag bol (usually uncountable, plural spag bols)
- (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
- ^ Eric Partridge (2005) “spag bol”, in Tom Dalzell and Terry Victor, editors, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, volume 2 (J–Z), London, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 1824.