English Explanatory Dictionary

shrimp

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. The flesh of such crustaceans.
  3. A small, puny or unimportant person.
  4. Synonym of butterface
  5. A small penis.
verb
  1. To fish for shrimp.
  2. To contract; to shrink.
noun
  1. Acronym of sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe.
noun
  1. A player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.

Pronunciation

/ʃɹɪmp/ en-us-shrimp.ogg

Word forms

shrimp shrimps shrimping shrimped

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”).

Synonyms

prawn biffer boner-shrinker bonerkiller buttface choad frump minger monkey monkeyface munter pukeface schlub stinka troll trollface uggo ugly duckling toad battle-ax beldame boot brown-bagger cunt dog gorgon hag harridan moose skag skank Sybil two-bagger whore butterface baby carrot baby cock baby dick dicklet dickling dicklit clit clitty microdick micropenis microphallus needle dick pindick shrimp dick shrimp

Antonyms

cunt buster donkey cock donkey dick horse cock horse dick monster cock monsterdick supercock superdick superpenis third leg

Derived words

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 shrimpball shrimp boat shrimpburger shrimp chip shrimp cracker shrimp DeJonghe shrimpery shrimpfish shrimp fork shrimpfurter shrimpish shrimp jammer shrimpless shrimplet shrimplike shrimpling shrimp net shrimpoluminescence shrimp paste shrimp plant shrimp scad shrimp scampi shrimp squat shrimp toast

Translations

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