shrimp

shrimp (1)

See also SHRIMP

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• Rhymes: -ɪmp

Etymology

Middle English schrimpe ‘shrimp, puny person’, from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (cf. Middle High German schrimpf ‘scratch’, Norwegian skramp ‘thin horse, thin man’), from *skrimpanan (cf. Old English scrimman ‘to shrink’, Middle High German schrimpfen ‘to shrink, dry up’, Swedish skrympa ‘to shrink’), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb, *skr̥mb (cf. Lithuanian skrembti ‘to crust over, stiffen’).

Noun

shrimp (countable and uncountable; plural shrimp or shrimps)

1. any of many small decapod crustaceans, of the infraorders Caridea, many of which are edible
2. (uncountable) the flesh of the crustaceans
3. (slang) a small or unimportant person

Synonyms

• prawn (Australia and U.K.)

Translations

decapod crustacean

Arabic: روبيان (ar) (rūbyān) m., جمبري (ar) (jambari) m. Armenian: ծովախեցգետին (hy) (çovaxec'getin) Chamicuro: kuchi Chechen: креветка Chinese: Mandarin: 蝦 (cmn), 虾 (cmn) (xiā), 毛蝦 (cmn), 毛虾 (cmn) (máoxiā) Croatian: kozica (hr) f. Czech: kreveta (cs) f. Danish: reje (da) c. Dutch: garnaal (nl) Faroese: rækja (fo) f. Finnish: katkarapu (fi) French: crevette (fr) f. German: Garnele (de) f. Greek: γαρίδα (el) (garída) f. Hungarian: garnéla (hu)

Icelandic: rækja (is) f. Indonesian: udang (id) Italian: gamberetto (it) m. Japanese: エビ (ja) (ebi) (蝦 (ja), 海老 (ja)) Javanese: urang (jv) Navajo: táłtłʼááh chʼosh daadánígíí Polish: krewetka (pl) f. Portuguese: camarão (pt) m. Romanian: crevete (ro) m. Russian: креветка (ru) (krevétka) f. Slovene: kozica (sl) f. Spanish: camarón (es) m., gamba (es) f., langostino (es) m. Swedish: räka (sv) c. Turkish: karides (tr) Vietnamese: tôm (vi)

flesh of the crustacean

Greek: γαρίδα (el) (garída) f. Spanish: camarón (es) m.

Turkish: karides (tr)

small person

Finnish: pirpana (fi), ipana (fi)

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Dyirbal: balan mawa (Guwal); balan dunguy (Jalnguy)

Korean: 새우 (sae-u)

Verb

shrimp (third-person singular simple present shrimps, present participle shrimping, simple past and past participle shrimped)

1. (intransitive) to fish for shrimp