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prettygoodwordlobscouse (LOB-skous) - n., a stew of meat, vegetables, and ship's hardtack.
By which you can guess it was specifically a sailor's dish. First appears in print around 1705, though who knows how long it was in the wild unrecorded. Origin confused, which is to say, it could be either from Norwegian lapskaus, Danish labskovs, or German labskaus, or even be the source for all those. Even more interesting is its descendant: the stew became popular in Liverpool with the shortened name of scouse, from whence the name Scouser for a Liverpuddlian and Scouse for their dialect of English (possibly in the reverse order).
---L.
By which you can guess it was specifically a sailor's dish. First appears in print around 1705, though who knows how long it was in the wild unrecorded. Origin confused, which is to say, it could be either from Norwegian lapskaus, Danish labskovs, or German labskaus, or even be the source for all those. Even more interesting is its descendant: the stew became popular in Liverpool with the shortened name of scouse, from whence the name Scouser for a Liverpuddlian and Scouse for their dialect of English (possibly in the reverse order).
---L.
