lobscouse
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English
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Etymology
Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of unknown origin.
Compare lapskaus, Dutch lapskous, Norwegian Bokmål lapskaus, German Lapskaus, Danish skipperlabskovs/labskovs; also English loblolly.
Noun
lobscouse (usually uncountable, plural lobscouses)
- (nautical) A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle , volumes (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., , →OCLC:
- [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 […] .
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Translations
meat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
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References
- OED 2nd edition 1989