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lobster butter

lobster butter

1 7.0
A type of butter that chefs mix with chopped lobster or lobster flavor to spread on food
  • noun
  • /ˈlɒbstər ˈbʌtər/
: mantequilla de langosta
  • 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
643 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
1 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.