Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A lobscouse.
- n. A native or resident of Liverpool, England.
- n. The dialect of English spoken in Liverpool.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as lobscouse.
Wiktionary
- n. A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Naut.) A sailor's dish. Bread
scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See lobscouse.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
Etymologies
- Shortening of lobscouse from the German Labskaus. (Wiktionary)
- Short for lobscouse. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The cook had just made for us a mess of hot "scouse" - that is, biscuit pounded fine, salt beef cut into small pieces, and a few potatoes, boiled up together and seasoned with pepper.”
Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative
“The cook had just made for us a mess of hot "scouse" -- that is, biscuit pounded fine, salt beef cut into small pieces, and a few potatoes, boiled up together and seasoned with pepper.”
“'A good example would be Liverpool people's love of 'scouse' - another name for lamb or beef stew.'”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“If you crave nostalgia, try the liver and onions, "scouse" or the corned beef hash with two fried eggs”
“As a scouse pensioner on a flying visit to see our Luke research scientist in the orange capital of Spain, I feel obliged to chide Simon Jenkins for not grasping what another outsider realised about Liverpool.”
“Appearances by Marco Pierre White and Simon Rimmer, restaurant offers and a bistro village on the waterfront go to show that Liverpool is going all out to establish itself as a city where culinary choice is not limited to a pan of scouse or a meat pie at Anfield or Goodison.”
“People in Liverpool used to eat this type of stew called scouse.”
“Dr. TAYLOR: Well, I mean they walk round with T-shirts on saying, you know, Im scouse not English.”
“A west country burr and scouse grumbling as you wander around a medieval village?”
“I just can't imagine this little scouse lad going to [the chief executive] David Gill or the manager [Sir Alex Ferguson] and asking: 'What is going on?”
The Guardian: Manchester United's sadness as Wayne Rooney shocks dressing room
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘scouse’.
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UK - slang
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Book learnin'
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Counterintuitive Demonyms of Great Br...
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Tweets
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dontcry Above all, Mimi was determined that he should speak like a nice middle-class boy from the suburbs, not a coarse, raucous 'wacker.' ..."I remember once he came home from town on the bus and he'd heard these Liverpudlians talking to each other - Scouse, you know - and he was shocked, he couldn't understand what they were talking about..."
- John Lennon:The Life, Philip Norman, pg. 31 Nov 12, 2008
dontcry "But their diet of mainly bread, margarine, strong tea, and lobscouse - a meat-and-biscuit stew from which Liverpudlians acquired the nickname Scouses - was chronically lacking in essential nutrients. This had its worst effects on the fourth boy, Alfred, born in 1912, who as a toddler developed rickets that stunted the growth of his legs. Alf's legs remained puny and foreshortened, and he failed to grow any taller than five feet four inches. He was, even so, a good-looking lad, with luxuriant dark hair, merry eyes, and the distinctive Lennon family nose, a thin, plunging beak with sharply defined clefts over the nostrils."
- John Lennon: The Life, by Philip Norman, pg.5 Nov 12, 2008
chained_bear OHHHH!!! That's what pork scouse is! Well, ya learn somethin' every day, I tellya. Thanks! Oct 11, 2007
john The Liverpudlian dialect, named after a lamb stew (says Wikipedia). Oct 11, 2007