Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

lobscouse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lob-scouse
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[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 […]."
"The food was called lobscouse, made up of minced salted beef, and hard biscuits mixed with water. On this tack we lived almost throughout the entire voyage."

Etymology

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.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

lobscouses (plural) lobscouce (alternative, obsolete) lobscourse (alternative) lob's course (alternative) lobscows (alternative)

Derived Forms

lobscouser scouse

Synonyms

lobscuse scouse

Questions

What does lobscouse mean?: A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
Where does lobscouse come 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.

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