What (who) is oyster - definition
oyster
One who uses many Jewish or Yiddish words or expressions as part of everyday speech, but may or may not be Jewish.
Did you hear her talking about the gefilte fish? She's such an oyster!
Did you hear her talking about the gefilte fish? She's such an oyster!
oyster
(oysters)
1.
An oyster is a large flat shellfish. Some oysters can be eaten and others produce valuable objects called pearls.
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2.
If you say that the world is someone's oyster, you mean that they can do anything or go anywhere that they want to.
You're young, you've got a lot of opportunity. The world is your oyster.
PHRASE: V inflects
oyster
¦ noun
1. a bivalve marine mollusc with a rough, flattened, irregularly oval shell, several kinds of which are farmed for food or pearls. [Ostrea edulis (Europe), Crassostrea virginica (America), and other species.]
2. a shade of greyish white.
3. an oval morsel of meat on each side of the backbone in poultry.
Phrases
the world is one's oyster one is in a position to enjoy a broad range of opportunities. [from Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor (II. ii. 5).]
Origin
ME: from OFr. oistre, via L. from Gk ostreon; related to osteon 'bone' and ostrakon 'shell or tile'.
Wikipedia
Oyster
Oyster is the common name for a number of different families of salt-water bivalve molluscs that live in marine or brackish habitats. In some species, the valves are highly calcified, and many are somewhat irregular in shape.
Pronunciation examples for oyster
1. Oyster.
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2. Oyster sauce.
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3. to an adult male oyster or female oyster,
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4. oyster farm is gone.
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5. the oyster bin.
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Examples of use of oyster
1. "And you know about the oyster of meat?" "The oyster?" In a duck?
2. Oyster Bay eighth–grader Fiona Brunner said she was amazed to find out there were slaves buried near Oyster Bay.
3. Its selection of fresh French oysters is to be considerably expanded and, for those looking for more, there will be a large selection of oyster dishes such as oyster soup, oysters fried with spinach and oyster risotto.
4. Alabama oyster fishermen, for instance, have been unable to replant the region‘s battered reefs with young oyster spats to replace the 80 percent losses that Ivan wrought.
5. The few oyster houses that survived the storm are only getting two or three oyster bags a day, down from the normal 300 to 400 bags.