subs. (nautical).—A hash of meat and vegetable; an olio; a GALLIMAUFREY (q.v.); see SOAP-AND-BULLION.
[Other nautical food names, mostly derisive, are CHOKE-DOG; DADDY FUNK; DEAD HORSE; DOGBODY; DOUGH JEHOVAHS; HISHEE-HASHEE; MEASLES; SEA-PIE; SOFT TACK; SOAP-AND-BULLION; TOMMY; TWICE-LAID.]
1751. SMOLLETT, Peregrine Pickle, ix. This genial banquet was entirely composed of sea-dishes … the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury composition known by the name of LOB’S-COURSE.
1785. GROSE, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, s.v.
1840. R. H. DANA, Jr., Two Years Before the Mast, v. The cook had just made for us a mess of hot SCOUSE—that is, biscuit pounded fine, salt beef cut into small pieces, and a few potatoes, boiled up together and seasoned with pepper.
1884. W. C. RUSSELL, Jack’s Courtship, i. It takes a sailor a long time to straighten his spine and get quit of the bold sheer that earns him the name of shell-back. That is not all. LOBSCOUSE eats into the system.
