spag bol

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English[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (AU)(file)

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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