lobster

Meaning

Adj

Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Noun

1. A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.
2. A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
3. (slang) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
4. (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Verb

1. To fish for lobsters.
2. To trick someone with a blue lobster picture and an annoying Toccata and Fugue in D minor.

Concepts

lobster

shrimp

crayfish

crab

prawn

crawfish

fool

dupe

bore

be scared

langouste

freshwater shrimp

Andaman

European lobster

Dublin bay prawn

langoustine

cray

anuran

frog

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɒb.stə/

Etymology

From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.