Crossword clues for scouse
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.
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 to the regional dialect, from 1963. Related: Scouser (1959).\n\nLobscouse. A dish much eaten at sea, composed of salt beef, biscuit and onions, well peppered, and stewed together.
[Grose, "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," 1788]
Wiktionary
n. A stew associated with the Liverpool area, usually containing (at least) meat, onions, carrots and potatoes.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Scouse (; also, in academic sources, called Liverpool English or Merseyside English) is an accent and dialect of English found primarily in the Metropolitan county of Merseyside, and closely associated with the city of Liverpool. The accent extends as far as Flintshire in Wales, Runcorn in Cheshire and Skelmersdale in Lancashire.
The Scouse accent is highly distinctive, and has little in common with those used in the neighbouring regions of Cheshire and Lancashire. The accent itself is not specific to all of Merseyside, with the accents of residents of St Helens and Southport, for example, more commonly associated with the historic Lancastrian accent.
The accent was primarily confined to Liverpool until the 1950s when slum clearance in the city resulted in migration of the populace into new pre-war and post-war developments in surrounding areas of what was informally named Merseyside and later to become officially known as Merseyside in 1974. The continued development of the city and its urban areas has brought the accent into contact with areas not historically associated with Liverpool such as Prescot, Whiston and Rainhill in Merseyside and Widnes, Runcorn and Ellesmere Port in Cheshire.
Variations within the accent and dialect are noted, along with popular colloquialisms, that show a growing deviation from the historical Lancashire dialect and a growth in the influence of the accent in the wider area.
Inhabitants of Liverpool are called Liverpudlians or Liverpolitans but are more often described by the colloquialism "Scousers".
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.