Re: Lobscouse, where does the term come from? Archived Message
Posted by Otto on February 11, 2020, 3:18 pm, in reply to "Lobscouse, where does the term come from? "
According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "scouse" is a shortened form of "lobscouse"[1] and has also been written as "lopscourse", "lobscourse", "lobskous", "lobscouce", and "lap's course". Its oldest quote is from 1707, by the satirist Edward Ward: "He has sent the Fellow..to the Devil, that first invented Lobscouse." Nothing definite but possible origins from Baltic/Scandanavian/German origin
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