different between jobster vs lobster

English

Etymology

Derived from job +? -ster.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d???b.st?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???b.st?/
• Rhymes: -?bst?(?)

Noun

jobster (plural jobsters)

1. A corrupt official; a corrupt public servant.
   • 1913, Munsey's Magazine (volume 48, page 19)

     […] this system will be ended, because nominations will be made at the primaries, in orderly, law-governed fashion — made by the people, not by the jobsters and bosses.

English

Etymology

From Middle English lopster, from Old English loppestre (“lobster, spider-like creature”), believed to be a corruption of Latin locusta (“lobster, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre.

Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop +? -ster.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l?b.st?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?l?b.st?/
• Rhymes: -?bst?(?)

Adjective

lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)

1. red-colored, especially from a sunburn.

Noun

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.
   • 1991, Markus Grosskopf, "Shit and Lobster", Helloween, Pink Bubbles Go Ape.

2. A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
3. (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
4. (slang) An Australian twenty dollar note, due to its reddish-orange colour.

Synonyms

• (British soldier) lobsterback, redcoat

Hyponyms

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

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• crawfish
• crayfish
• mudbug
• prawn
• shrimp
• yabby
• lobster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

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

1. To fish for lobsters.

Translations

Anagrams

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