Definition of Lobstir
Lob"ster, n. As a term of
opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable
person. [Slang]
Lob"ster (?), n. [AS. loppestre,
lopystre prob., corrupted fr. L. locusta a marine
shellfish, a kind of lobster, a locust. Cf. Locust.]
(Zoöl.) Any large macrurous crustacean used as food,
esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster
(H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H.
vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops Norvegicus) is
similar in form. All these have a pair of large unequal claws. The
spiny lobsters of more southern waters, belonging to
Palinurus, Panulirus, and allied genera, have no large
claws. The fresh-water crayfishes are sometimes called
lobsters.
Lobster caterpillar (Zoöl.), the
caterpillar of a European bombycid moth (Stauropus fagi); --
so called from its form. Lobster louse
(Zoöl.), a copepod crustacean (Nicothoë
astaci) parasitic on the gills of the European lobster.
Lob"ster, n. As a term of
opprobrium or contempt: A gullible, awkward, bungling, or undesirable
person. [Slang]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
LOBSTER. A nick name for a soldier, from the colour of his
clothes. To boil one's lobster, for a churchman to
become a soldier: lobsters, which are of a bluish black,
being made red by boiling. I will not make a lobster
kettle of my ****, a reply frequently made by the nymphs
of the Point at Portsmouth, when requested by a soldier
to grant him a favour.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- a crustacean used as an expensive seafood
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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