The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Scouse \Scouse\ (skous), n. (Naut.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. [1913 Webster]WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
scouse n 1: a stew of meat and vegetables and hardtack that is eaten by sailors [syn: lobscouse, lobscuse, scouse]