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shrimp^¹

/ʃɹɪmp/

Sounds like Shrimp, SHRIMP · Rhymes with -ɪmp

Where it comes from

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 *(s)kerbʰ-.

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”).

noun shrimp · shrimps

countable, uncountable 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. 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.
Similar: prawn
uncountable The flesh of such crustaceans.
Similar: prawn
countable, slang, uncountable A small, puny or unimportant person.
countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable Synonym of butterface
Similar: prawn, biffer, boner-shrinker, bonerkiller, buttface, choad, frump, minger, monkey, monkeyface, munter, pukeface
countable, derogatory, figuratively, slang, uncountable A small penis. shrimp dick
Similar: baby carrot, baby cock, baby dick, dicklet, dickling, dicklit, clit, clitty, microdick, micropenis, microphallus, needle dick · Opposite: cunt buster, donkey cock, donkey dick, horse cock, horse dick, monster cock, monsterdick, supercock, superdick, superpenis, third leg

verb shrimps · shrimping · shrimped

intransitive To fish for shrimp. Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:[…]
To contract; to shrink.

SHRIMP^²

noun

abbreviation, acronym Acronym of sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe

Shrimp^³

noun Shrimps

A player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: prawn, half-pint, runt, peewee, mysid, crevette, grasshopper, trawling, leg, deveined, breaded, cocktail, squirt, lobster, mom, barney

Translations

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noun decapod crustacean

Español	camarón, gamba, langostino, cámaro, esquila, quisquilla
한국어	새우 sae'u
日本語	エビ ebi, 海老 ebi
中文	蝦 /虾, 毛蝦 /毛虾 máoxiā
हिन्दी	झींगा jhīṅgā
Português	camarão
Français	crevette
Deutsch	Garnele, Shrimp, Krabbe
Italiano	gamberetto
Ελληνικά	γαρίδα garída
Română	crevetă
Русский	креве́тка krevétka
Tiếng Việt	tôm
العربية	رُوبِيَان rūbiyān, جَمْبَرِيّ jambariyy, إِرْبِيَان ʔirbiyān, قُرَيْدِس quraydis
עברית	חסילון chasilón, שרימפ shrimp, שרימפס shrimps

noun flesh of the crustacean

Español	camarón
中文	蝦 /虾
Português	gamba, camarão
Ελληνικά	γαρίδα garída

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@misc{shrimp_2026,
  title = {shrimp},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/shrimp},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}