Oyster

Quick meaning: Oyster is a noun meaning The delicate oyster-shaped 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.

Meaning

The delicate oyster-shaped 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.

More Meanings

1. A pale beige color tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
2. (colloquial, by analogy) A person who keeps secrets.
3. (figurative) Something at one's disposal.
4. (UK, slang) A shoplifter.
5. (UK, slang) Ellipsis of Oyster card.
6. Of a pale beige colour tinted with grey or pink, like that of an oyster.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Piſt. Why then the world's mine Oyſter, which I, with ſword will open.

Cut remaining skin on back. Remove the oyster (choice dark meat in spoon-shaped bone on back) with the leg.

I will not be a human oyster. No, I will lay my cards on the table, which is assuredly a thing that oysters do not do.

Word Forms

• oysters
• oystre
• oystering
• oystered

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mollusk, eastern, bivalve, shellfish, clam, mussel.

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