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scouse
CIDE DICTIONARY
scouse, n.
A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
scouse, n. & adj. colloq.
--n.
1 the dialect of Liverpool.
2 (also Scouser) a native of Liverpool.
3 (scouse) = LOBSCOUSE.
--adj. of or relating to Liverpool.
--n.
1 the dialect of Liverpool.
2 (also Scouser) a native of Liverpool.
3 (scouse) = LOBSCOUSE.
--adj. of or relating to Liverpool.
Etymology
abbr. of LOBSCOUSE
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