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I know what Yorks, Lancs and Geordie refer to, but what's/where's "Scouse"?
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I know what Yorks, Lancs and Geordie refer to, but what's/where's "Scouse"?Scouse, of Liverpool, the Liverpudlian dialect Scouser, a Liverpudlian. A language all of its own, like Euskara  Edit: All mouth and trousers. General throughout UK I think, though I've no idea where it originated. Some sites suggest the meaning arises from the implication that there is nothing useful under the trousers, any bulge is just the cut of the cloth. Rod
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Thanks, Rod - I had an intuition that the "trousers" bit had sexual implications - much London slang does have!
And "scouse" AnnaS - correctly identified as Liverpudlian by m'learned friend - is the name of an old local dish, which was a form of stew containing large anounts of potato and minute amounts of meat (the latter was optional in times of extreme poverty) which was ubiquitous in Liverpool in the late C18 and throughout the C19. The name comes from the Scandinavian, "scause" which means (more or less) "stew."
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Per M-W OnLine "a sailor's dish of stewed or baked meat with vegetables and hardtack"
Heard in an old sea chanty "He gave them a bowl of American hash, and called it Liverpool scouse."
Oder so etwas.
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You're always learning something in here... 
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always learning something in here
Some of it is even true.
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is the OED at sea on this one? it claims scouse to be a shortening of lobscouse, which is in turn given as "Of obscure origin".
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When I was working in Norway (ah! many years ago!) "lobscause" was on the menu in the cafeteria most days of the week - it was, indeed a variety of stew, although I totally disremember the ingredients.
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Rhuby totally disremembers the ingredients
And parbly a good thang, too!
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and scouse is still popular as a dish in 'Pool - I think it is particularly in the tradition of the Irish Liverpudlians, of whom one was telling me last week his mum still makes scouse about once a week on average.
btw, an example of the typical Mancunian/Scouse divide came in the form of a lorrydriver's joke, also heard last week: "Why's a scouser like Batman? - 'cause he can niver go out without robin'!"
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