lobsterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 loppestere, lopster, from 古期英語 loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the 古期英語 feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).

Alternatively, from 古期英語 lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the 古期英語 feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop +‎ -ster.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈlɒb.stə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈlɑb.stɚ/
• 韻: -ɒbstə(ɹ)

名詞

lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)

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. Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:
   1. A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
   2. A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).
   3. A squat lobster.
3. (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
   • 1912, Ralph Davol, Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829, page 214:

     […] how the troops came marching out for evening exercise under Captain Preston; how pedestrians and street urchins taunted them, shouting "Lobsters," "Bloody-backs," and flinging snow-balls, turnips, […]

4. (slang) An Australian twenty-dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

同意語

• (British soldier): lobsterback, redcoat

下位語

• (crustacean in Palinuridae): cray, langouste, spiny lobster, rock lobster

派生語

派生した語

• → French: lobster
• → Hebrew: לוֹבְּסְטֶר
• → Hindi: लॉब्स्टर (lŏbsṭar)
• → Japanese: ロブスター
• → Russian: ло́бстер (lóbster)
• → South Levantine Arabic: لوبستر (lōbster)
• → Thai: ล็อบสเตอร์ (lɔ́ps-dtə̂ə)
• → Ukrainian: ло́бстер (lóbster)
• → Urdu: لابسٹر (lābsṭar)
• → Yiddish: לאָבסטער (lobster)

動詞

lobster (third-person singular simple present lobsters, present participle lobstering, simple past and past participle lobstered)

1. To fish for lobsters.

形容詞

lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)

1. Red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

   Synonym: red as a lobster

参考

• crawfish
• crayfish
• mudbug
• prawn
• shrimp
• yabby
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アナグラム

• trobles, Bolster, Strobel, Bolters, Stroble, Bortles, rebolts, bolters, orblets, reblots, bolster