lobscouse
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lobscouse
Where it comes from
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.
noun lobscouses · lobscouce · lobscourse · lob's course · lobscows
- A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit. [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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noun meat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
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