scouse
pronunciation
How to pronounce scouse in British English:
UK [skaʊs]
How to pronounce scouse in American English:
US [skaʊs]
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- Noun:
- a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
Word Origin
- scouse (n.)
- 1840, short for lobscouse "a sailor's stew made of meat, vegetables, and hardtack," of uncertain origin (compare loblolly); transferred sense of "native or inhabitant of Liverpool" (where the stew is a characteristic dish) is recorded from 1945. In reference to the regional dialect, from 1963. Related: Scouser (1959). Lobscouse. A dish much eaten at sea, composed of salt beef, biscuit and onions, well peppered, and stewed together. [Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1788]
Example
- 1. We are not english , we are scouse .
- 2. Jose reina hopes his kids ' speak much more scouse ' after signing new liverpool deal .
- 3. The scouse fashionista left the boys to their party and headed out onto the precariously icy liverpool streets , with a little help from the restaurant staff , to the nearby bar and grill for after dinner drinks .
- 4. Who 's the most scouse foreigner ?
- 5. I do like the scouse wit .