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lobster butter

lobster butter

7.0
A type of butter that chefs mix with chopped lobster or lobster flavor to spread on food
  • noun
  • /ˈlɒbstər ˈbʌtər/
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  • He spread some lobster butter on warm toast as a decadent snack.

Examples

  • The chef finished the dish with a generous spoonful of lobster butter.

  • I love lobster butter on my seafood dishes.

  • You can make lobster butter by simmering lobster shells in melted butter.

  • The chef prepared a delicious lobster butter sauce.

  • The chef prepared a delicious pasta dish with lobster butter for added richness.

  • For her lobster tail, she made a savory sauce using lobster butter and garlic.

  • He drizzled lobster butter over the grilled corn to enhance its flavor.

Synonyms

butter
vslobster butter
635 1.0

A soft yellow food made from cream used for cooking and spreading

is that fat combined with shellfish meat or shell extract for flavor
garlic butter
vslobster butter
2 1.4

Butter mixed with garlic that you put on bread or use in cooking

is instead blended with a shellfish meat or shell extract for flavor
drawn butter
vslobster butter
  • US
1 6.3

Melted butter with the solid parts of milk removed that is used as a sauce for seafood

is instead produced by blending fat with a shellfish meat or shell extract
lemon butter
vslobster butter
1 2.9

A sauce of browned butter with lemon juice and parsley for fish or vegetables

is instead made by adding shellfish meat or shell extract to fat
shrimp butter
vslobster butter
5.4

Butter mixed with small pieces of shrimp and used as a spread or in cooking

is flavored with a different shellfish meat or its shell extract

Surface Forms

lobster butter singular
lobster butters plural

Morphology

lobster + butter

The meaning is directly compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'lobster' and 'butter' can infer this is butter flavored with or containing lobster. The 'X butter' food-naming pattern is common and cross-linguistically regular, so the sense is immediately predictable from the constituents.

Etymology

The compound name lobster butter comes from a simple kitchen idea: cooks mix real lobster or cook lobster shells in melted butter to make a rich, lobster-flavored spread. So, lobster butter today means butter blended with lobster meat or lobster flavor and used as a 'spread' or to 'finish' dishes.