Lobscouse
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit. uncountable, usually
"[A] dish of hard fish swimming in oil appeared at each end, the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of lob's course […]."
- 2 a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors wordnet
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More examples"[A] dish of hard fish swimming in oil appeared at each end, the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of lob's course […]."
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.
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