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Meanings of lobscouse in English

A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.

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Examples for "scouse"
Examples for "scouse"
1
People say it's vital to have a scouse heartbeat and local players.
The Guardian
2
If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
The Guardian
3
Even a scouse of mouldy biscuit met the approval of Loolowcan.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 / A Magazi...
4
Unbeaten in their past six, it is the scouse Blues who are looking good.
The Guardian
5
My husband is from Liverpool and talks fondly of scouse.
The Guardian
Usage of lobscouse in English
1
But I make you some lobscouse in de mean time, I say.
The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
2
The lobscouse made of pork, fowl and sliced potatoes was a dish to remember.
In the Days of Poor Richard
3
It's a temperance lunch-room for sailors, with regular first-class ship grub; lobscouse, plum-duff and sech.
Richard Dare's Venture; Or, Striking Out for Himself
4
He pours out his woes to her while she wipes away the tears from the lobscouse.
Jaffery
5
We went into the tent and cooked lobscouse.
The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition...
6
You will be like that lobscouse, my friend.
The Pilot and His Wife
7
A lobscouse is a stew, local to Liverpool, made with cheap cuts of lamb or beef.
The Guardian
8
Stick the soft ones in the lobscouse!
Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest
9
Not to know the delights of a clambake, not to love chowder, to be ignorant of lobscouse!
The Cruise of the Dolphin
10
The object was seated at the dinner-table contending with her lobscouse, and did not feel his presence near.
The Fiend's Delight
11
And so I did; and he and de mates say dey nebber taste such good lobscouse in dere lives.
The Missing Ship: The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
12
I've a fine dish of lobscouse, a raisin pie and some cider from Farmer Goggins's press all ready for you.
The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon
13
And the variations can be so broad it's hard to know where a lobscouse ends and, say, a Lancashire hotpot begins.
The Guardian
14
I could live on lobscouse, or soap and bully, for a year, and thank God for getting more than I deserved.
Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War
15
It would be the supernaculum of the commonplace, and prove the author to be the lobscouse of literature, the loblolly of letters.
Love, Life & Work / Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Nat...
16
The two port cities even share a local delicacy: Labskaus or lobscouse, a meat-based stew that used to be cooked on visiting ships.
The Guardian
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