shrimp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɹɪmp/
rhymes: -ɪmp
Forms: form: shrimp
form: shrimps
Etymology: From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), possibly from or related to Middle Low German schrempen (“to wrinkle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr̥mb-.
See also Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”); also Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”); also Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”).
Senses: examples: text: 1851, "A Lady of Charleston" (Sarah Rutledge), The Carolina Housewife, 2013, unnumbered page,
Butter well a deep dish, upon which place a thick layer of pounded biscuit; having picked and boiled your shrimps, put them upon the biscuit; a layer of shrimps, with small pieces of butter, a little pepper, mace or nutmeg.
text: Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.
ref: 1998, Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management, page 605:
text: Most shrimps belong to one of several families of the Infraorder Caridea (Chapter 4). However, coral shrimps and Venus shrimps are so different from the rest that a separate infraorder is warranted.
ref: 2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification, page 145:
text: America's favorite seafood, shrimp has always been a big seller at the Home Port. On any given day, we usually served around 40 to 50 pounds of shrimp.
ref: 2011, Will Holtham, Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha's Vineyard, page 142:
text: How many shrimps do you have to eat / Before you make your skin turn pink? / Eat too much and you'll get sick / Shrimps are pretty rich
ref: 2014, Kero Kero Bonito, “Flamingo” (overall work in English and Japanese):
synonyms: prawn
glosses: Any of many swimming, often edible, crustaceans, chiefly of the infraorder Caridea or the suborder Dendrobranchiata, with slender legs, long whiskers and a long abdomen.
synonyms: prawn
glosses: The flesh of such crustaceans.
glosses: A small, puny or unimportant person.
synonyms: word: prawn
word: biffer
word: boner-shrinker
word: bonerkiller
word: buttface
word: choad
word: frump
word: minger
word: monkey
word: monkeyface
word: munter
word: pukeface
word: schlub
word: stinka
word: troll
word: trollface
word: uggo
word: ugly duckling
word: toad
word: battle-ax
word: beldame
word: boot
word: brown-bagger
word: cunt
word: dog
word: gorgon
word: hag
word: harridan
word: moose
word: munter
word: skag
word: skank
word: Sybil
word: two-bagger
word: whore
word: butterface
glosses: Synonym of butterface
examples: text: shrimp dick
synonyms: word: baby carrot
word: baby cock
word: baby dick
word: dicklet
word: dickling
word: dicklit
word: clit
word: clitty
word: microdick
word: micropenis
word: microphallus
word: needle dick
word: pindick
word: shrimp dick
word: shrimp
antonyms: word: micropenis
glosses: A small dick.
Derived terms: Aesop shrimp
akiami paste shrimp
alpheid shrimp
blue shrimp
brine shrimp
brown shrimp
clam shrimp
cleaner shrimp
clown mantis shrimp
coonstripe shrimp
daggerblade grass shrimp
drunken shrimp
emperor shrimp
fairy shrimp
ghost shrimp
glass shrimp
grass shrimp
harlequin mantis shrimp
land shrimp
lawn shrimp
mantis shrimp
mussel shrimp
northern shrimp
opossum shrimp
painted mantis shrimp
peacock mantis shrimp
peppermint shrimp
pink shrimp
pistol shrimp
popcorn shrimp
potted shrimp
rainbow mantis shrimp
sand shrimp
seed shrimp
sexy shrimp
shield shrimp
shrimp boat
shrimp chip
shrimp cracker
shrimp DeJonghe
shrimp fork
shrimp jammer
shrimp net
shrimp paste
shrimp plant
shrimp scad
shrimp scampi
shrimp squat
shrimp toast
shrimp up
skeleton shrimp
snapping shrimp
sun anemone shrimp
sweet shrimp
tadpole shrimp
teppo snapping shrimp
tiger pistol shrimp