scousen.
/skaʊs/, U.S. /skaʊs/ 1. = lobscouse n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > meat dishes > [noun] > stewed meat
stewpot1542
estew1566
fricassee1568
ragout1652
pepperpot1698
grenade1706
haricot1706
pupton1706
lobscouse1707
stew1756
puchero1802
granada1806
bredie1815
muddle1833
scouse1840
slum1847
hashmagandy1851
ropa vieja1855
chilli con carne1857
sorpotel1863
goulash1866
daube1877
paprikash1877
chilli1886
pot-pie1890
slumgullion1902
cholent1903
cracker-hash1904
cracker-stew1909
gippo1914
waterzooi1915
Fanny Adams1921
adobo1938
cassoulet1940
feijoada1941
coddle1942
stifado1950
rancho1957
tinga1964
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 41 The cook had just made for us a mess of hot ‘scouse’.
1876 C. H. Davis Narr. North Polar Exped. Ship Polaris vi. 163 A couple pounds of which we used last night making scouse.
1884 Pall Mall Budget 22 Aug. 13/2 Bear and walrus were boiled up with vegetables and made into scouce or soup.
2. Transferred uses. (Often with capital initial.) slang.
a. A native or inhabitant of Liverpool.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > English nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of England > other towns
Oxonianc1540
Yarmouthian1614
Manchesterian1645
Novocastrian1645
wacker1768
Stratfordian1769
Mancunian1771
docker1791
Yorkist1796
Dicky Sam1820
Brummie1824
Liverpudlian1833
Yarmouth bloater1849
Exonian1871
Grimbarian1886
Cheltonian1887
Plym1913
Hoxtoniana1935
scouse1945
loiner1950
Scouser1959
Wulfrunian1959
Manc1961
pie eater1985
1945 Southern Daily Echo 27 Dec. 4/3 He was stopped by his Lordship and asked to explain the meaning of three words—‘oppo’, ‘Geordie’ and ‘scouse’. His interpretations were: ‘oppo’ slang for opposite number, friend or colleague, ‘Geordie’—a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; ‘scouse’—a native of Liverpool where they eat ‘scouse’ (stew).
1960 O. Manning Great Fortune ii. 148 ‘I'm a scouse,’ he said. ‘From the dregs of the Liverpool soup.’
1969 R. Airth Snatch! ix. 91 ‘Where's home?’ ‘Liverpool.’ ‘A scouse. Fancy that.’
1980 Times 20 June 11/6 A roly-poly, amiable Liverpudlian, with the Scouse's seemingly god-given gift of being able to send up an overblown..occasion.
b. The dialect of English spoken in Liverpool. Also, the manner of pronunciation or accent typical to the ‘scouse’.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Germanic > English > British English > English English
north country1698
west country1711
Yorkshire1717
Kenticism1735
English English1783
cockney1812
Cockneyese1823
East Angliana1825
Somersetian1825
Northumbrian1845
Norfolk1863
Kentish1866
Doric1870
Kensingtonian1911
Mummerset1915
Geordie1928
Hoxtoniana1935
scouse1963
mockney1967
Kensington1968
Liverpudlian1985
Jafaican2006
MLE2006
Multicultural London English2006
1963 Guardian 3 June 10/5 This rock group suddenly made Liverpool fashionable in the entertainment world. After their first two records it became necessary for people in the business in London to learn a few words of Scouse.
1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse Introd. As a dialect—for it is a dialect and not just a regional accent—Scouse has many curious features.
1979 Times 20 Nov. 4 A touch of Scouse in the pronunciation will be entirely acceptable.
c. attributive or as adj.
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1960 Spectator 14 Oct. 565 A horrifyingly plausible spiv, even down to that awful ‘scouse’ accent.
1965 G. Melly Owning-up vi. 67 Albert Kinder, a scouse promoter who intended to tie up jazz in the North.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games x. 276 ‘Film Stars’ is the most popular guessing game in Britain... Other names: ‘Initials’, ‘Pop Stars’, ‘TV Stars’, and, in Liverpool, ‘Filmy’, a typical scouse apocope.
1973 Guardian 1 Aug. 1/8 Scouse House was the tongue-in-cheek name given to the Merseyside Development Office.
1976 Observer 8 Aug. 11 (advt.) Ar Alf sez darrevry Scouse Big'ead's brood special fer d'Pool, like.
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