different between redcoat vs lobster

English

Alternative forms

• red coat

Etymology

Bahuvrihi compound of red +? coat

Pronunciation

Noun

redcoat (plural redcoats)

1. A British soldier, especially during the American Revolution.
   • 1896, A. E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad:

     The street sounds to the soldiers’ tread, / And out we troop to see: / A single redcoat turns his head, / He turns and looks at me.

   • 1906, Alfred Noyes, The Highwayman:

     He did not come in the dawning; he did not come at noon;

     And out o' the tawny sunset, before the rise o' the moon,

     When the road was a gypsy's ribbon, looping the purple moor,

     A red-coat troop came marching—

     Marching—marching—

     King George's men came marching, up to the old inn-door.

2. A member of the entertainment staff at Butlin's holiday camps in the United Kingdom, who wear red blazers.

   • Mirror News 16 May 13. The series ran from 1980 until 1988, and won a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series in 1984. It was based on Perry’s experiences working as a Redcoat in Butlins.

3. (slang) A fox.
   • 1947, Pennsylvania Game News (volumes 18-19, page 30)

     Hurriedly he made his way around one end of the pond to the spot where he had first sighted the redcoat.

Usage notes

The soldier and entertainment staff uses are sometimes capitalised.

Synonyms

• (British soldier) lobsterback

Anagrams

• Art Deco, cordate

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