lobscouse

• lobscouce (obsolete)
• lobscourse, lob's course
• lobscows

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.

lobscouse (usually uncountable, plural lobscouses)

1. (nautical) A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     [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 […] .

• lobscouser
• scouse

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “lobscouse”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• colobuses