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Definition of Scouse
1. Noun. A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.
Definition of Scouse
1. n. A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse.
Definition of Scouse
1. Adjective. (Liverpool colloquial) Liverpudlian. ¹
2. Noun. A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scouse
1. a type of meat stew [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scouse
Literary usage of Scouse
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports by New Hampshire State hospital, Concord, Concord New Hampshire State Hospital (1843)
"Saturday, Porridge, Scouse, do. The same amended at the remonstrance of the ...
Sunday, Porridge, Scouse, Coffee and cocoa, with bread and butter. ..."
2. Pioneer Days in California by John Carr (1891)
"Instead of doing so he doused the scouse into it, remarking that it was clean
enough for ... Without thinking aj moment, I hurled the scouse, dish and all, ..."
3. Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg (1918)
"Scouse, whom Frenchy saw unhitch the lanyard of the pot as he worked above Joe,
went on with his tarring without batting an eye. Trouble was on foot, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1862)
"viz., scouse, which is composed of beef cut into small pieces, and potatoes, in
such proportion that one pound and a half of scouse contains 2*18 ounces of ..."
5. Reminiscences of Rufus Choate: The Great American Advocate by Edward Griffin Parker (1860)
"Lob-scouse," was the reply. " What's lob-scouse ?" " It's a stew." It appeared,
in the course of the trial, that the captain put into the Cape de Verds to ..."
6. Reminiscences of Rufus Choate: The Great American Advocate by Edward Griffin Parker (1860)
"Lob-scouse," was the reply. " What's lob-scouse ?" " It's a stew." It appeared,
in the course of the trial, that the captain put into the Cape de Verds to ..."
7. The Nantucket Scrap Basket: Being a Collection of Characteristic Stories and by Sons and Daughters of Nantucket (1916)
"Lob Scouse. In the old days Lob Scouse was a prominent feature of the menu of a
... Potato Scouse Was the same as above, excepting that potatoes were ..."
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