Other forms: lobsters
A lobster is an expensive sea animal with a hard shell and two big claws. Boiled lobster, a lobster pot, lobster thermidor.
The two claws do different jobs — one crushes and one cuts — and which side they are on varies between individuals. They are blue-black alive and turn red when cooked, because heat releases a red pigment bound to a protein. Lobster was poor people's food in colonial America. Note that the origin of the word is unclear.
1nounlobsterA large sea creature with a hard shell and two claws.
“The fishermen pulled up their traps full of lobsters.”
lobster is a sea creature.
Old English loppestre is of unknown origin, perhaps altered from Latin locusta, a locust or shellfish.
Latin
lō̆custa — grasshopper, locust
Old English
loppestre
Middle English
loppestere
English, today
lobster
Built from
From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of unknown 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.
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