different between stewed vs lobscouse

English

Etymology

stew +? -ed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /stu?d/

Adjective

stewed (comparative more stewed, superlative most stewed)

1. Having been cooked by slowly boiling or simmering. See stew.
2. (slang) Intoxicated by an excess of alcohol.
3. (Of tea) Bitter from having been steeped too long.

Synonyms

• (cooked by slowly boiling or simmering):
• (intoxicated by alcohol): See Thesaurus:drunk
• (steeped too long):

Verb

stewed

1. simple past tense and past participle of stew

Anagrams

• Tweeds, dewets, dweets, tweeds, wested

English

Alternative forms

• lobscouce (obsolete)
• lobscourse, lob's course
• lobscows

Etymology

Compare lapskaus.

Noun

lobscouse (usually uncountable, plural lobscouses)

1. (nautical) A dish of meat stewed with vegetables and ship biscuit.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, I.9:

     [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 […] .

Derived terms

• lobscouser
• scouse

Translations

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989

Anagrams

• colobuses