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lobscouse

lobscouse noun: a dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.

Noun

lobscouse (usually uncountable, plural lobscouses)

  1. (usually) A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
    • [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
    • 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

lobscouse meaning in Tamil

lobscouse in Tamil

இறைச்சி உணவு வகை

Forms of lobscouse

plurallobscouses
alternative formlobscourse
alternative formlob's course
alternative formlobscows
alternative form (obsolete)lobscouce

Origin of lobscouse

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.

Words formed from lobscouse

Questions about lobscouse

What does lobscouse mean?
Lobscouse means a dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
What is lobscouse in Tamil?
Lobscouse in Tamil is இறைச்சி உணவு வகை. See Lobscouse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lobscouse?
Lobscouse is a noun.
What is the plural of lobscouse?
The plural of lobscouse is lobscouses.

Words near lobscouse in the dictionary

  1. lobous
  2. lobs
  3. Lobsang
  4. lobscouce
  5. lobscourse
  6. lobscouse
  7. lobscouser
  8. lobscousers
  9. lobscouses
  10. lobscows
  11. lobsided

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lobscouse (page history and authors); lobscouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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