lobscouseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Possibly from Yorkshire dialect lob (“boil”, literally “bubbling up”) + scouse, a word of unknown origin.

Compare lapskaus, Dutch lapskous, Norwegian Bokmål lapskaus, German Lapskaus, Danish skipperlabskovs/labskovs; also English loblolly.

名詞

lobscouse (usually uncountable, 複数形 lobscouses)

1. (nautical) A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 9, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:

     [A] dish of hard fish swimming in oil appeared at each end, the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of lob's course […] .

派生語

• lobscouser
• scouse

参照

• OED 2nd edition 1989

アナグラム

• colobuses