shrimp
Meanings
Noun
- disparaging terms for small people
- any of various edible decapod crustaceans
- small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
- 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.
- The flesh of such crustaceans.
- A small, puny or unimportant person.
- Synonym of butterface
- A small dick.
Verb
- fish for shrimp
- To fish for shrimp.
- To contract; to shrink.
Origin / 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
baby carrot, baby cock, baby dick, battle-ax, beldame, biffer, boner-shrinker, bonerkiller, boot, brown-bagger, butterface, buttface, choad, clit, clitty, cunt, dicklet, dickling, dicklit, dog, frump, gorgon, hag, half-pint, harridan, microdick, micropenis, microphallus, minger, monkey, monkeyface, moose, munter, needle dick, peewee, pindick, prawn, pukeface, runt, schlub, shrimp, shrimp dick, skag, skank, stinka, Sybil, toad, troll, trollface, two-bagger, uggo, ugly duckling, whore
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 13
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