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A sailor's stew made of meat, vegetables, and hardtack.

[Perhaps British dialectal (northeast England) lob, to bubble + scouse, of unknown origin.]


(Cookery) a sailor's stew of meat, vegetables, and hardtack
[C18: perhaps from dialect lob to boil + scouse, broth; compare loblolly]


(ˈlɒb skaʊs)

a sailor's stew of meat, potatoes, onions, hardtack, etc.
[1700–10; obscurely akin to loblolly]
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Noun1.lobscouse - a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
stew - food prepared by stewing especially meat or fish with vegetables
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Tables, cups and plates were sent flying and boiling water and lobscouse was flung over guests.
Lobscouse Liverpool Thought this country's bank was broke, but we can give millions to yet another ungrateful country.
Ben then asks what she's made for supper and she tells him, "I've warmed thou some o' that lobscouse 'at wur laft yesterday.
POSH BOY'S TOYS Two posh boys, don't know the price of milk But I guarantee, these two wear shirts of silk There are more than two, posh boys in the House Who also know naught, of the tasty lobscouse If you need to know, what an Oligarchy is Look no further, cast your eyes on this They allowed a hose-pipe ban, in a so called drought Then rain soaked every-one, entirely throughout I don't know, what they teach at Eton But it is true, they think they can't be beaten This is undemocratic, and open to abuse Should they be allowed, to be out on the loose?
Holyhead's 79 pub will be packed with lobscouse on offer at half time.
They and Liverpool seamen helped to evolve lobscouse, the meat and potato stew, whose name, shortened to 'Scouse' has since become the label of every Liverpudlian.
It is perhaps as alarming and exhilarating as the Western seaman's culinary switch from the "usual sailor's menu of lobscouse, dandyfunk and chokedog, to a Laskari fare of karibat and kedgeree.
She describes surprisingly varied meals and includes recipes for such delicacies as sea pie, lobscouse and burgoo.
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The managing director, whose favourite dishes include Sunday roast and lobscouse (stew), said: "I love food - absolutely.
Scouse or lobscouse came to mean any cheap, unthickened meat stew, usually comprising lamb or mutton and always containing potatoes.