English Explanatory Dictionary

lobscouse

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.

Word forms

lobscouse lobscouses lobscouce lobscourse lob's course lobscows

Etymology

Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of unknown origin. Compare lapskaus, Dutch lapskous, Norwegian Bokmål lapskaus, German Labskaus, Danish skipperlabskovs/labskovs; also English loblolly.

Derived words

lobscouser scouse
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