lobster

Meaning

Adj

Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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. (countable, uncountable) Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
3. (countable, uncountable) Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
4. (countable, uncountable) Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
5. (countable, historical, slang, uncountable) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
6. (countable, slang, uncountable) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Verb

To fish for lobsters.

Synonyms

shrimp

🦐

crayfish

crab

🦀

prawn

fool

frog

🐸

anuran

be scared

freshwater shrimp

langouste

Dublin bay prawn

European lobster

langoustine

bore

Andaman

crawfish

cray

dupe

Translations

homard

🦞

Hummer

🦞

langosta

🦞

kreeft

🦞

αστακός

aragosta

zeekreeft

🦞

lagosta

bogavante

astice

🦞

locusta

pantserkreeft

llagosta

langoest

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɒb.stə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: loppestere

Inherited from Old English: loppestre

In summary

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.

Sentences

The lobster was expensive and undercooked .