Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.

    Labskaus

    a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors

Translations

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By meaning 1
meat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit:

Origin

Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of

Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of unknown origin.

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Forms

plural: lobscouses

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors:lobscusescouse

Word family

2 related words

See also

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