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locust
English
Etymology
From Middle English locuste, locust, from Anglo-Norman locuste, Middle French locuste, and their source, Latin locusta (“locust, crustacean, lobster”). Doublet of langouste. The sense in "Mainlander" directly borrows Chinese ?? (wong4 cung4), also meaning "locust".
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l??.k?st/
- (US) IPA(key): /?lo?.k?st/
Noun
locust (plural locusts)
- Any of the grasshoppers, often polyphenic and usually swarming, in the family Acrididae that are very destructive to crops and other vegetation, (especially) the migratory locust (Locusta migratoria). [from 14th c.]
- (now historical) A fruit or pod of the carob tree. [from 16th c.]
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 9:
- Among other articles, they brought with them a great quantity of locusts, which are a kind of pulse, sweet and pleasant to the palate, and in shape resembling French beans, but longer.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 9:
- Any of various often leguminous trees and shrubs, especially of the genera Robinia and Gleditsia; the locust tree. [from 17th c.]
- A cicada. [from 18th c.]
- (Hong Kong, derogatory, offensive) A Mainlander.
Usage notes
- sometimes confused with locus
Hyponyms
- American locust (Schistocerca americana)
- Australian plague locust (Chortoicetes terminifera)
- Bombay locust (Nomadacris succincta)
- brown locust (Locustana pardalina)
- desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria)
- Italian locust (Calliptamus italicus)
- migratory locust (Locusta migratoria)
- Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus)
- red locust (Nomadacris septemfasciata)
- Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus) (extinct)
- spur-throated locust (Austracris guttulosa), of Australia
- Tree locusts (Anacridium spp.)
- Anacridium aegyptium (Egyptian locust).
- Anacridium melanorhodon, of Africa.
- Anacridium wernerellum, of Africa.
Translations
Verb
locust (third-person singular simple present locusts, present participle locusting, simple past and past participle locusted)
- (intransitive) To come in a swarm.
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary
- This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
The hardest, cruellest people in the world,
Come locusting upon us, eat us up,
Confiscate lands, goods, money […]
- This Philip and the black-faced swarms of Spain,
- ?, Alfred Tennyson, Queen Mary
References
Anagrams
- clouts
Middle English
Noun
locust
- Alternative form of locuste
locust From the web:
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lobster
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)
- red-colored, especially from a sunburn.
Noun
lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)
- 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.
- 1991, Markus Grosskopf, "Shit and Lobster", Helloween, Pink Bubbles Go Ape.
- A crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.
- (slang, historical) A soldier or officer of the imperial British Army (due to their red or scarlet uniform).
- (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)
- To fish for lobsters.
Translations
Anagrams
- Bolster, Bortles, Strobel, Stroble, bolster, bolters, reblots, rebolts, trobles
lobster From the web:
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- what lobsters don't have claws
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- what lobsters teach us about stress
- what lobsters have claws
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