"packed meal" means: In Wales — especially around Swansea — a packed meal is what the rest of the world calls a takeaway or takeout. While the phrase sounds like.... This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
packed meal
In Wales — especially around Swansea — a packed meal is what the rest of the world calls a takeaway or takeout.
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In Wales — especially around Swansea — a packed meal is what the rest of the world calls a takeaway or takeout. While the phrase sounds like it belongs in a lunch box, locals use it to mean food ordered from a chippy, curry house, or kebab shop to eat at home. It's one of those quietly regional expressions that marks a true Swansea native, the kind that confuses every non-Welsh visitor who pictures sandwiches in cling film.
I can't be bothered cooking tonight — let's just grab a packed meal from the Chinese down the road.
"packed meal" means: In Wales — especially around Swansea — a packed meal is what the rest of the world calls a takeaway or takeout. While the phrase sounds like.... This is a fairly neutral word with no inherent risk attached. There is no real cause for parental concern; it is descriptive vocabulary rather than something dangerous. If your child uses it, context will usually make the meaning clear. A brief, curious question about where they heard it is generally enough to know whether to follow up.
"packed meal" means: In Wales — especially around Swansea — a packed meal is what the rest of the world calls a takeaway or takeout. While the phrase sounds like.... Register: neutral, standard English, usable in most everyday contexts. Note the regional or dialect label (regional) — usage may sound odd outside that variety. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being
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(Wales, especially Swansea) A takeaway.
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- takeaway71%
(chiefly, UK, Australia, and, New Zealand) A meal which has been purchased and has been carefully packaged as to be taken and consumed elsewhere.
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(Hull, East Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Wales) A packed lunch.
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(chiefly, UK, Irish, Commonwealth, Hong Kong, sometimes, _, Philippines) (Of food) intended to be eaten off the premises from which it was bought.