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noun
A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Topics: nautical, transport
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: lobscuse, scouse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: stew
History
Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of unknown origin. Compare lapskaus, Dutch lapskous, Norwegian Bokmål lapskaus, German Labskaus, Danish skipperlabskovs/labskovs; also English loblolly.
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