lobscouse

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noun

A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.

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lobscusescouse
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Meanings

nounlobscouse (usually uncountable, plural lobscouses)

plural lobscouses · alternative obsolete lobscouce · alternative lobscourse · alternative lob's course · alternative lobscows

  1. uncountableusuallynauticalA dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.

    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.

    1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 38
    1 more example

    [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 […].

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC

Synonyms & antonyms

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

Similar
lobscusescouse
Broader
stew
Also see
scouse

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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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Translations

Danish labskovs, skipperlabskovs
  • labskovsmeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
  • skipperlabskovsmeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
Finnish lapskoussi
  • lapskoussimeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
German Labskaus
  • Labskausmeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
Norwegian lapskaus
  • lapskausmeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
Polish scouse
  • scousemeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
Swedish lapskojs
  • lapskojsmeat dish stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit
Cite this entry
APA

lobscouse. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobscouse

MLA

“lobscouse.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobscouse. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lobscouse,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lobscouse.

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