lobscouse

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lob=scouse

CIDE DICTIONARY

lobscouse, n. [Written also lobscourse from which lobscouse is corrupted.] [Lob + course.].

 A combination of meat with vegetables, bread, etc., usually stewed, sometimes baked; an olio.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lobscouse, n. a sailor's dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship's biscuit.

Etymology

18th c.: orig. unkn.: cf. Du. lapskous, Da., Norw., G Lapskaus