scouse

noun British Nautical.

1. a baked dish or stew made usually with meat and hardtack.

noun

1. Liverpool dialect a stew made from left-over meat

noun

1. Also called: Scouser a person who lives in or comes from Liverpool
2. the dialect spoken by such a person

adjective

3. of or from Liverpool; Liverpudlian

n.1840, short for lobscouse “a sailor’s stew made of meat, vegetables, and hardtack,” of uncertain origin (cf. 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).