Noun: lobster
| Singular | lobster |
| Plural | lobsters |
Sample Sentences
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[…] 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, […] [1912, Ralph Davol, Two Men of Taunton: In the Course of Human Events, 1731-1829, page 214:]
Nouns inflected like lobster
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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).
2. Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster. See: Middle English Nouns '
loppestere', Old English Nouns '
loppestre', Latin Nouns '
lō̆custa', Old English Nouns '
lobbe'.
Verbs referencing "lobster"
French Nouns
lobster, Russian Nouns
лобстер, Ukrainian Nouns
лобстер.