| 释义 |
shrimpish, a.|ˈʃrɪmpɪʃ|
[f. shrimp n. + -ish.]
Diminutive, puny, insignificant.
1549Chaloner Erasmus on Folly D iv, What will suche shrimpysshe bodies dooe..whan it cometh to handstrokes? 1567Golding Ovid's Met. xiii. (1575) 161 b, Those same shrimpish armes of his. 1655–87H. More App. Antid. vi. 330 How shrimpish he is and unfit to fill this place. 1664Comenius' Janua Ling. 278 Slender, shrimpish, lean. 1881Mrs. C. Praed Policy & P. II. ix. 145 A shrimpish sprig of nobility.
Hence ˈshrimpishness, insignificance.
1651H. More Enthus. Tri., etc. (1656) 255 The shrimpishnesse of the second part of Eugenius his Answer. |