What's the difference between scouse and spouse?

Scouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A sailor's dish. Bread scouse contains no meat; lobscouse contains meat, etc. See Lobscouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One girl with a Scouse accent sees me taking notes and says: "Oi, get up me dear… stop writing youse!"
  • (2) "The Liverpool fans made up a song that my mum 'loves Scouse cock'.'"
  • (3) My scouse accent, though, was diminishing, having moved to Essex in my teenage years.
  • (4) The shirts-and-jeans combos might not be for everyone, but there's no denying the quiet confidence, the soft but authoritative Scouse accent, the silver mane gelled to stiff peaks ...
  • (5) If you're a scouse coffee aficionado, let us know which one he means.
  • (6) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The young Gerrard: Anfield’s scouse heartbeat.
  • (7) It didn't feel all that safe to have blagged a ticket in the wrong end for a big FA Cup match away at West Ham, once the packed terrace began singing: "I'd rather be a Paki than a Scouse."
  • (8) I’m certainly in that category.” Burnham, who grew up in Culcheth near Warrington in Cheshire, said he felt neither Mancunian nor Scouse.
  • (9) Not even the predicted invading scouse hordes appeared to storm the citadel, although by lunchtime there was a fair contingent on the Strand singing Fields of Anfield Road in front of a platoon of massed grateful cameramen.
  • (10) John Carvel Scott Thomas to play Lennon's aunt in biopic She is best known for roles which are quintessentially English and more often than not quite posh but now Kristin Scott Thomas is to take on hard-as-nails Scouse after being cast as John Lennon's tough-minded Aunt Mimi in artist Sam Taylor-Wood's debut feature film.
  • (11) I don’t think it comes down to whether there is a scouse lad in the team.
  • (12) Arena speaks in broad Neapolitan dialect, which comes from the back of the throat, and truncates every word with a descending hum, or sigh – it is famously singular, akin to raw scouse.
  • (13) His speech quickens; the scouse vowels get more pronounced.
  • (14) Michael was born in Beaconsfield Street, one of six, to a father from Liverpool of west African, Antiguan and Irish descent and a Scouse-Irish mother.
  • (15) It is an act of kindness he may have regretted; his Scouse travelling companions proved rather excitable company, as the video recording one of them made on his mobile phone proved .
  • (16) What did you make of your fellow Scouse sportsman’s acting chops?
  • (17) People say it’s vital to have a scouse heartbeat and local players.
  • (18) By the time Carragher called it a day Lucas had developed a way to understand the defender's thick scouse accent and now enjoys watching his former team-mate working as a pundit on TV.
  • (19) With such quintessential Scouse lineage, David says: "I'm mixed race but I don't refer to myself that way.
  • (20) "I started, and it was amazing," she says in broad scouse.

Spouse


Definition:

  • (n.) A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.
  • (n.) A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.
  • (n.) To wed; to espouse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results indicated that 48% of the sample either regularly checked their own skin or had it checked by another person (such as a spouse), and 17% had been screened by a general practitioner in the preceding 12 months.
  • (2) A series of hierarchical multiple regressions revealed the effects of Surgency, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability, and Intellect on evoking upset in spouses through condescension (e.g., treating spouse as stupid or inferior), possessiveness (demanding too much time and attention), abuse (slapping spouse), unfaithfulness (having sex with others), inconsiderateness (leaving toilet seat up), moodiness (crying a lot), alcohol abuse (drinking too much alcohol), emotional constriction (hiding emotions to act tough), and self-centeredness (acting selfishly).
  • (3) Nurses have a responsibility to care for the spouse caregiver as well as the patient.
  • (4) No significant differences in any of the measures were found in spouses.
  • (5) In this longitudinal study, involving twice monthly samples from each participant and carried out in two phases lasting at least six and three months respectively, we have confirmed that fluctuations in T8+ cells occur in patients with MS and also found a significant reduction in this lymphocyte subpopulation in patients' spouses but not their siblings, compared with unrelated controls.
  • (6) It seems to be working: nearly a quarter of online daters have met a long-term partner or spouse through the sites.
  • (7) Neither the sufferers and their spouses, nor the 20 couples who constituted the control group, showed any relationship between partners with respect to angular displacement.
  • (8) Using confirmatory factor analysis on an independent sample (N = 377), these dimensions were tested for factorial invariance across spouse and nonspouse caregivers and between caregivers of persons with cancer and those caring for persons with Alzheimer's disease.
  • (9) But I have heard from other people who have lost spouses in this way, and fathers and mothers, and anger is perfectly appropriate.
  • (10) Husband's self-care activities, uncertainty, and husband's physical and mental symptoms were concerns that spouses frequently reported at T2.
  • (11) Who else in American politics would be so audacious as to have one spouse accept money from foreign governments and businesses while the other charted American foreign policy?” Schweizer asks.
  • (12) Compared to our subjects, Coombs found spouses were either housewives or held lower level jobs rather than demanding careers, and consequently our subjects experienced greater difficulty meeting demands of everyday life (cooking, cleaning, child care).
  • (13) Spouses, elite elderly, and young subjects did not differ in their ability to recognize correctly recently heard stimuli or to complete word stems.
  • (14) Product-moment correlations for FVC of spouse pairs were 0.18 (n = 90 pairs) if neither smoked, 0.013 (n = 45 pairs) if only the wife smoked, 0.18 (n = 118 pairs) if only the husband smoked, and -0.04 (n = 83 pairs) if both smoked.
  • (15) Articles in the popular press notwithstanding, data from the 1984 National Long-term Care Survey indicate that a relatively small number of adult children and spouses assume the multiple responsibilities of elder care and child care or employment.
  • (16) On the other hand, in the "Ms" (as in other "panmixed" populations) positive assortative mating among hereditary-predisposed persons is a more significant factor influencing family transmission of EFP, since the correlation between probands and their spouses is rpp = 0.31 (p less than 0.001) in the "Ms", as compared to rpp = 0.19 (p less than 0.1) in the "Rs".
  • (17) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
  • (18) The only factor which affected degree of adjustment was communication with the spouse.
  • (19) We compared self- and spouse reports of snoring and other symptoms of sleep apnea syndrome ascertained from married couples in a community-based survey.
  • (20) Functional status is defined as the woman's performance of activities related to her possible multiple roles of spouse, parent, homemaker, community member, and worker.

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