Plastic Scouser
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In the English city of Liverpool, Plastic Scouser is a term used to describe a person who sounds Scouse but lives on the other side of the River Mersey to the city itself. Usually people in Birkenhead and Wallasey are referred to by this term.
"Plastic Scouser" can also refer to someone very proud of, and quick to emphasise their supposedly "scouse" heritage, despite living in a town that is not part of Liverpool, not necessarily just a town on the opposite side of the River Mersey. People on the Wirral tend to speak in a softer Scouse, and are indeed considered "posh" to their fellow Scousers.
"Plastic Scousers" use the retaliatory term "Woolybacks" to describe "Liverpudlians" (a resident of the city of Liverpool), whereas "Liverpudlians" use the term "Woolybacks" to refer to people from St Helens or other neighbouring towns.
Sometimes, using Scouse slang, the phrase is shortened to "Plazzy Scouser"