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lobsterwoman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈlɒbstə(ɹ)wʊmən/
• (US) audio

Etymology

From lobster + -woman, modelled after lobsterman.

Meanings

1. A female fisher for lobsters, Female equivalent of lobsterman.
   • Maybe I'll become a lobsterwoman. 2005, Karen V. Siplin, Such a Girl, page 305:
   • The author (and lobsterwoman) Linda Greenlaw, about to depart on a book tour for her new mystery, admitted to me that Mr. Obama’s emergence as the Democratic nominee was a historic, awe-inspiring moment —— not that she’s going to vote for him. 2008 June 22, Jennifer Finney Boylan, “A Political Shell Game”, in New York Times:
   • And there are always lobster boats out with lobstermen and lobsterwomen working to catch someone's dinner! 2019, Jordan Reeves, Jen Lee Reeves, Born Just Right, page 73:
   • Marian wished for the moment that she'd gone with her father long ago and become a lobsterwoman, running a boat of her own. 2015, Theodore Weesner, Harbor Lights:
2. A female alien or monster that appears like a hybrid of a human and a lobster.
   • The low-budget 1964 horror movie Vengeance of the Lobsterwoman provided Meryl Streep with her first starring role, opposite Roger Moore who played the Lobsterwoman. 2013, Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, The Unbelievable Truth, page 185:
   • 'You can't be Pamela Macx,' says Pierre, his back to the wall, keeping the sword point before the lobsterwoman-thing. 2010, Charles Stross, Accelerando:
   • They ranged from the display of tattooed women as exotic pictures—like Salome/ "the famous Oriental beauty tattooed in seven colors," seen at Luna Park in 1912 (ATP, Fonds Soury, vol. 19, 149 top and bottom), a deeply erotic, nonnormative performance—to the virile displays of the female animal tamer's courage, to the gender inappropriate but familiar woman wrestler, and to the “monsters” such as mule women or lobster women. 2010, W. Spurlin, J. Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, Comparatively Queer:
   • Pat's looks like a washerwoman, and mine, which I like the best, is a lobsterwoman with a lobsterbaby on her lap. 1996, Joan MacCracken, The Sun, the Rain, and the Insulin: Growing Up with Diabetes, page 210:

Forms

Coordinates

lobsterperson · lobsterman · lobsterman

Hypernyms

fisherwoman · lobsterman · lobsterer · lobsterman

Relateds

lobsterer · lobsterman · fisherwoman · lobsterperson