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What they speak in Liverpool?
Answer for the clue "What they speak in Liverpool? ", 6 letters:
scouse
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scouse \Scouse\ (skous), n. (Naut.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse . --Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Scouse is a type of lamb or beef stew. The word comes from lobscouse , a stew commonly eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe, which became popular in seaports such as Liverpool .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, short for lobscouse "a sailor's stew made of meat, vegetables, and hardtack," of uncertain origin (compare loblolly ); transferred sense of "native or inhabitant of Liverpool" (where the stew is a characteristic dish) is recorded from 1945. In reference ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors [syn: lobscouse , lobscuse ]
Usage examples of scouse.
The pistol was pointing at the figure in the bed before Scouse grunted in his sleep.
Through the front windows, he saw Scouse and Paddy humping the hatch boards into place.
A bunch of young Scouse drug dealers had turned up after Christmas, bored with life in Bournemouth.
There were questions he needed to answer about the Scouse lad in the back of the Transit, about the abandoned Cavalier in Portsea.
What of the Scouse lunatics, with their Stanley knives and their cut-price wraps?
The vehicle was moving, and by this time Scouse was firing into the cab area of the wagon, hoping to drop the driver.
By this time Scouse was with me and the other two blokes who had come over the fence line.
The dishes had names like Slumgullet, Boiled Eels, Lob Scouse, Wet Nellies, Slumpie and Treacle Billy - good, solid stuff that stuck to the ribs and made it hard to get up out of the seat.
He pronounced loved like luvved, very scouse, very working class, and, I thought, very affected.
He also had a thick Scouse accent, something that Mimi was determined that John would not acquire.
I tried calling Geddes a Scouse once, and then tried to show him that Liverpool is closer to London than Wyoming to New England, but it never sank in.
The combination of Scotch, cigarettes and Liverpool have produced a unique Scouse growl.
Today, it looked like I could risk interrupting her without getting a rich gobful of Scouse abuse.
A chap from Liverpool used to be called Scouse, he tells her, wondering whether the etymology is the same.
By this time Scouse was with me and the other two blokes who had come over the fence line.