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Scouse

Definition: Scouse

Scouse

Noun

1. A stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Scouse" is a common misspelling or typo for: scours, souse, soused, spouse.



Synonyms: Scouse

Synonyms: lobscouse (n), lobscuse (n). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Scouse

DomainTitle

Books

  • Scouse mouse, or, I never got over it : an autobiography (reference)

  • Scouse the mouse (reference)

  • The Gospels in Scouse (reference)

  • The scouse phenomenon : the scrapbook of the new Liverpool rock scene : from Deaf School to Frankie Goes to Hollywood (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Scouse

"Scouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.57% of the time. "Scouse" is used about 70 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)98.57%6940,280
Lexical Verb (base form)1.43%1339,140
                    Total100.00%70N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Scouse

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "scouse": scouse-hold.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scouse

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

scouse

5

house scouse

4

scouse tunez

3

joke scouse

3

scouse tune

2

git randy scouse

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Scouse

Language Translations for "scouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏لهجة ليفربول. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

вид ливърпулска яхния, ливърпулски диалект, ливърпулец. (various references)

   

French

  

habitant de liverpool, dialecte de liverpool. (various references)

   

German

  

liverpooler dialekt, liverpooler (liverpudlian). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

vagdalt hús főzelékkel (lobscouse). (various references)

   

Manx

  

Lerphoyllagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ousescay

   

Spanish

  

habitante de liverpool, dialecto de liverpool, de liverpool. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

liverpooldialekt, liverpoolbo (liverpudlian). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

liverpoollu, liverpool'a özgü bir yemek, liverpool şivesi. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

лобскаус. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Scouse

Derivations

Words beginning with "scouse": scouses. (additional references)

Words ending with "scouse": lobscouse. (additional references)

Words containing "scouse": couscouses, lobscouses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Scouse"

Words ending with "ouse": Crouse, House, Ouse, Trouse. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Scouse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "c-e-o-s-s-u"

-1 letter: coses, cusso, souse.

-2 letters: cess, coss, cues, cuss, ecus, oses, secs, sous, sues, uses.

-3 letters: cos, cue, ecu, ess, oes, ose, sec, sos, sou, sue, use.

-4 letters: es, oe, os, so, us.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-o-s-s-u"
 

+1 letter: caseous, chouses, courses, escudos, focuses, fucoses, hocuses, oscules, scouses, sources, sucrose.

 

+2 letters: bescours, carouses, choruses, chousers, choushes, clonuses, closeups, closures, coassume, coituses, coleuses, confuses, consumes, contuses, cornuses, corpuses, costumes, coulises, coulisse, counsels, countess, coursers, crocuses, crustose, custodes, focusers, focussed, focusses, glucoses, hocussed, hocusses, obscures, sclerous, scourers, scourges, scouters, scrouges, seascout, slouches, specious, stuccoes, subcodes, sucroses, uncloses.

 

+3 letters: aurochses, callouses, caroluses, carousels, carousers, cassoulet, cathouses, chorussed, chorusses, closeouts, cloudless, coassumed, coassumes, coinsures, coliseums, colobuses, colosseum, concussed, concusses, conquests, consensus, construes, consumers, convulses, costumers, coulisses, countless, crusadoes, custodies, customers, customise, cynosures, defocuses, discourse, focusless, fructoses, icehouses, jacobuses, lobscouse, nonsuches, obscurest, octopuses, opuscules, osculates, outcastes, outcurses, outscores, recourses, refocuses, resources, rosaceous, scourgers, scouthers, scrounges, seascouts, sebaceous, seclusion, sericeous, setaceous, siliceous, slouchers, sorcerous, soutaches, stuccoers, subechoes, subepochs, subsector, successor, succorers, succories, sunchokes, supercops, uncrossed, uncrosses.

 

+4 letters: autoecisms, backhouses, carrousels, cassoulets, castoreums, celluloses, censorious, chophouses, choraguses, choreguses, closetfuls, cloudiness, clubhouses, coagulases, cocounsels, coiffeuses, coinsurers, colosseums, colossuses, commissure, communises, composures, concourses, concussive, consensual, conspectus, consulates, consulters, cookhouses, corpuscles, coruscates, costumiers, cotrustees, counselees, counselors, countesses, courtesans, courtesies, courtsides, couscouses, cousinages, cousinries, croustades, curbstones, curiousest, customised, customises, customizes, deckhouses, defocussed, defocusses, disclosure, discoursed, discourser, discourses, dustcovers, enclosures, exclusions, excursions, fluoresces, glucosides, housecarls, housecoats, incestuous, inclosures, lobscouses, microbuses, misfocused, misfocuses, mistouches, moustaches, mucosities, muscovites, nonesuches, nonsuccess, obfuscates, outclassed, outclasses, outcrossed, outcrosses, outmuscles, outschemes, oversauces, percussion, preciouses, precursors, prefocuses, prosecutes, prospectus, reclusions, recursions, refocussed, refocusses, sauceboats, sauceboxes, scabiouses, scoundrels, scroungers, scutcheons, seclusions, seductions, sequacious, slouchiest, sourceless, speciously, subdeacons, submucosae, subprocess, subsection, subsectors, subsociety, succession, successors, suffocates, sunporches, supercoils, supercools, superjocks, superscout, supersonic, superstock, testaceous, touchiness, unconfuses, unfocussed, uroscopies, vouchsafes.

 

+5 letters: autocrosses, blockhouses, brucelloses, brucellosis, callousness, ceanothuses, cellulosics, cloudlessly, cloudscapes, cocksuckers, commissures, compulsives, conceptuses, conductress, connoisseur, consciouses, consensuses, consequents, constitutes, consuetudes, consumables, consumerism, consumerist, consummates, copiousness, copublishes, cornhuskers, corruptness, costumeries, counselings, counsellors, countersues, countlessly, coursewares, courthouses, courtliness, crossruffed, crustaceous, curiosities, curiousness, cursoriness, cushionless, customhouse, customizers, decussation, defocussing, disclosures, discounters, discourages, discoursers, discourtesy, echoviruses, ecotourisms, ecotourists, escutcheons, fluorescers, glucosidase, goatsuckers, grouchiness, housecleans, inosculates, isoleucines, leucoplasts, microbusses, minicourses, mischievous, miscomputes, misconstrue, misfocussed, misfocusses, myoclonuses, necessitous, nonsubjects, nucleosides, nucleosomes, obscureness, obscurities, overfocuses, pediculoses, pediculosis, pelycosaurs, percussions, persecutors, perspicuous, preclusions, prefocussed, prefocusses, prosceniums, prosecutors, pseudocoels, racecourses, raucousness, reconquests, rediscounts, refocussing, sansculotte, saponaceous, schoolhouse, scoriaceous, scoutmaster, scroungiest, slouchiness, sociosexual, solanaceous, solicitudes, sourcebooks, speculators, subcolleges, subcolonies, subcounties, subdecision, subjections, subprojects, subsections, successions, succotashes, superblocks, supercargos, supermachos, supermicros, superschool, superscouts, supersonics, superstocks, supertonics, surjections, surrogacies, suspicioned, telecourses, touchstones, uncoalesces, unconfessed, uncouthness, uncrossable, underscores, undisclosed, unprocessed, vacuousness, viciousness, viscountess, viscounties, viscousness.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scouse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 6F 75 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

...    -.-.    ---    ..-    ...    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 006F 0075 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

536981878571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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