Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lobscouse.
- noun A native or resident of Liverpool, England.
- noun The dialect of English spoken in Liverpool.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lobscouse .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A sailor's dish. Bread
scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. Seelobscouse .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A stew associated with the
Liverpool area, usually containing (at least)meat ,onions ,carrots andpotatoes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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 1869
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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 Richard Henry Dana 1848
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''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 2011
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If you crave nostalgia, try the liver and onions, "scouse" or the corned beef hash with two fried eggs
Travel news, travel guides and reviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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If you crave nostalgia, try the liver and onions, "scouse" or the corned beef hash with two fried eggs
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People in Liverpool used to eat this type of stew called scouse.
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Dr. TAYLOR: Well, I mean they walk round with T-shirts on saying, you know, Im scouse not English.
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Dr. TAYLOR: Well, I mean they walk round with T-shirts on saying, you know, Im scouse not English.
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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.
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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.
john commented on the word scouse
The Liverpudlian dialect, named after a lamb stew (says Wikipedia).
October 11, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word scouse
OHHHH!!! That's what pork scouse is! Well, ya learn somethin' every day, I tellya. Thanks!
October 11, 2007
dontcry commented on the word scouse
"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
November 12, 2008
dontcry commented on the word scouse
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
November 12, 2008