lobscouse

English

Alternative forms

• lobscouce (obsolete)
• lobscourse, lob's course
• lobscows

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)

1. (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 […] .

Derived terms

• lobscouser
• scouse

Translations

meat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit

• Danish: labskovs c, skipperlabskovs c
• Finnish: lapskoussi (fi)
• Norwegian: lapskaus (no) m
• Swedish: lapskojs (sv) c

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• colobuses