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    scouse
    noun
    a baked dish or stew made usually with meat and hardtack.
  • Scouse
    Scouse
    noun
    a person who lives in or comes from Liverpool

scouse

American  
[skous] / skaʊs /

noun

  1. a baked dish or stew made usually with meat and hardtack.

    You can't visit Liverpool without delving into a piping hot bowl of scouse.

  2. Usually Scouse

    1. a Scouser.

    2. the dialect spoken in Liverpool, England.

      If there's anyone out there who understands Scouse, maybe you can help us translate this video!


adjective

  1. Often Scouse relating to a person or people from Liverpool or to the dialect spoken there.

    She still speaks with a Scouse accent.

Scouse 1 British  
/ skaʊs /

noun

  1. Also called: Scouser.  a person who lives in or comes from Liverpool

  2. the dialect spoken by such a person

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

adjective

  1. of or from Liverpool; Liverpudlian

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
scouse 2 British  
/ skaʊs /

noun

  1. dialect a stew made from left-over meat

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of scouse

First recorded in 1830–40; short for lobscouse

Example Sentences

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O'Grady rose to fame in the 1990s with his iconic scouse drag queen persona Lily Savage, going on to present game show Blankety Blank and other light entertainment programmes.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2023

He said it will celebrate Ukraine's culture with a "scouse twist".

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2022

They had waited 10 years for this, just the last of three decades of frustration for Liverpool supporters that included tragedy and heartbreak yet rarely silenced the passionate scouse voices singing in the Kop.

From Washington Times • Jun. 26, 2020

It says on your Twitter profile you make a mean pan of scouse stew… I do that but nothing else.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2019

Even a scouse of mouldy biscuit met the approval of Loolowcan.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various

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