different between oyster vs ouster

English

Alternative forms

• erster (New York City and New Orleans)
• oister (obsolete)
• oystre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English oystre, from Old English ostre, reinforced or superseded by Anglo-Norman oistre, which is from Old French oistre, uistre (compare modern French huître); both lines (Old English and Old French) from Latin ostrea, from Ancient Greek ??????? (óstreon).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

oyster (plural oysters)

1. Any of certain marine bivalve mollusks, especially those of the family Ostreidae (the true oysters), usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers.
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Polite Conversation, 1841, The Works of Jonathan Swift, Volume 2, page 344,

     He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

2. The delicate morsel of dark meat contained in a small cavity of the bone on each side of the lower part of the back of a fowl.
3. A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

4. (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
5. (Britain, slang) A shoplifter.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

oyster (comparative more oyster, superlative most oyster)

1. Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.

Verb

oyster (third-person singular simple present oysters, present participle oystering, simple past and past participle oystered)

1. (intransitive) To fish for oysters.

See also

• astragalus
• bluepoint
• carpetbag steak
• clam
• lungwort
• mussel
• Ostreidae
• salsify
• spat
• Appendix:Colors

References

• oyster at OneLook Dictionary Search
• oyster on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Storey, Troyes, oystre, storey, toyers, tyroes

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /a?st?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /a?st??/
• Rhymes: -a?st?(?)

Etymology 1

From Old French ouster, oustre, a nominalization of Anglo-Norman oustre (“to oust”).

Noun

ouster (plural ousters)

1. (historical) A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection.
2. (property law) Action by a cotenant that prevents another cotenant from enjoying the use of jointly owned property.
3. (now chiefly US) Specifically, the forceful removal of a politician or regime from power; coup.

Translations

Verb

ouster (third-person singular simple present ousters, present participle oustering, simple past and past participle oustered)

1. To oust.

Etymology 2

oust +? -er

Noun

ouster (plural ousters)

1. (Britain) Someone who ousts.

Anagrams

• Souter, Toures, outers, rouets, routes, souter, touser, trouse

Old French

Verb

ouster

1. (chiefly Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of oster

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-sts, *-stt are modified to z, st. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.