shrimpn.

Brit.

/ʃrɪmp/, U.S.

/ʃrɪmp/

Forms: Middle English schrympe, Middle English–1500s schrimpe, shrympe, Middle English–1600s shrimpe, Middle English schrymp, scrymppe, srympe, shyrympe, 1500s schriemp, 1500s– shrimp.

Etymology: Probably cognate with Middle High German (Middle German) schrimpen strong verb, to shrink up: see scrimp adj. and adv., scrimp v.; compare also shrim v.Sense 2 is probably directly from the etymological sense ‘shrunken creature’, but is now felt as transferred < 1.

a. Any of the slender, long-tailed, long-legged (chiefly marine) crustaceans of the genus Crangon and allied genera, closely related to the prawns; esp. C. vulgaris, the common shrimp, which inhabits the sand on the coasts of Great Britain and is a common article of food.Also, in a wider sense, applied to various similar crustaceans, as the families Mysidæ and Gammaridæ; see brine-shrimp n. at brine n. Compounds 2, fairy shrimp n. at fairy n. and adj. Compounds 4, opossum shrimp n., etc.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shrimp or prawn

shrimp1327

prawn1336

prawn fish1552

crevette1878

camaron1880

gamba1950

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > tribe Caridea (shrimps and prawns)

shrimp1327

prawn1336

Caridea1852

carid1907

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Crangonidae of Caridea

shrimp1327

bunting1836

1327 Wardrobe Acc. 20 Edw. II 31/18 Shrimpis, 3d.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 42 Take þe Luce, an þe Perche, & þe Schrympe, & seþe hem.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 449/1 Schrymp, fysche, stingus.

c1450 Brut 447 Grete Scrymppys.

a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 161 Shrympes welle pyked þe scales awey ye cast.

1553 P. Belon De Aquatilibus 273 Anglorum..pisces ex Tamesi & aliis Britanniæ fluminibus..Roches, Daces, Tenche, Ruff, Schriemp, Prans.

1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 109 The Periwincle, Prawne, the Cockle, and the Shrimpe, For wanton womens tasts, or for weake stomacks bought.

1674 T. Flatman Belly God 97 An ore-charg'd Stomack roasted shrimps will ease.

1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 5 Shrimps are found in the Mississippi as far as Natches.

1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 389 The Shrimp is much smaller than the Prawn, and is by no means so much esteemed as food.

1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 49 She partook of shrimps and porter.

1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 280/1 The phantom shrimp (Caprella linearis) of S. Australia.

collective singular.1869 A. J. Evans Vashti viii. 111 That boy..whose sublimest idea of heaven consists in the hope that its blessed sea of glass is brimming with golden shrimp.

†b. Applied to a scaly monster. Obsolete.

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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > types of

warlockOE

Catathlebac1300

lamiaa1382

shrimp?a1400

thing1888

snallygaster1940

?a1400 Morte Arth. 767 His scoulders ware schalyde alle in clene syluere, Schreede ouer alle the schrympe with schrinkande poyntez.

c. A shrimp or prawn used as a bait in angling.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > fish used as bait

minnow1615

shrimp1856

squida1862

sliver1869

fion1875

snade1901

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > miscellaneous or unspecified types of shrimp

beard1611

shrimplet1688

garnel1694

water shrimp1745

pandle1746

brine-shrimp1836

brine-worm1836

squilloid1852

well shrimp1853

glass-crab1855

shrimp1856

snapping shrimp1941

1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 236/2 Shrimps are used for angling in docks and canals, and are good baits for perch, if used alive.

1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 29/1 Odd attractions such as boiled shrimps, caddis-grubs, small frogs, maggots, wasp-grubs, &c. are sometimes successful.

1924 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 489/1 I would not trust the most experienced salmon with Michael Lydon and a Galway ‘shrimp’.

1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 31 The shrimp will wake the lazy dozer, and he'll take it or your fly with a rush.

1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 180 Prawn and Shrimp Tackles.

1962 L. L. Bean Catal. 52 Bean's shrimp fly is an excellent imitation of the natural food for trout.

d. A colour resembling that of a cooked shrimp, a bright shade of pink.

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the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink > bright pink

strawberry pink1675

crevette1884

shrimp1895

flamingo1897

cyclamen1923

shocking pink1938

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 12/1 Colored Surah silks..in the following colors: green..shrimp, wine.

1922 Daily Mail 20 Dec. 1 Lingerie Crepe... Pink, Sky, Jade, Flesh, Shrimp, Saxe.

1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 81 The particulars of the colours and patterns are as under—No. 1. A shrimp ordinary crochet pattern.

1975 New Yorker 26 May 81 (advt.) This plain white steerhide belt reverses to cool summer shades including seafoam green, shrimp, bone.

a. A diminutive or puny person (rarely thing). Chiefly contemptuous.

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the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person

dwarfeOE

congeonc1230

go-by-ground?a1300

smalla1300

shrimpc1386

griga1400

gruba1400

murche1440

nirvil1440

mitinga1450

witherling1528

wretchocka1529

elf1530

hop-o'-my-thumb1530

pygmy1533

little person1538

manikin1540

mankin1552

dandiprat1556

yrle1568

grundy1570

Jack Sprat1570

squall1570

manling1573

Tom Thumb1579

pinka1585

squib1586

screaling1594

giant-dwarf1598

twattle1598

agate1600

minimus1600

cock sparrow1602

dapperling1611

modicum1611

scrub1611

sesquipedalian1615

dwarflinga1618

wretchcock1641

homuncio1643

whip-handle1653

homuncule1656

whippersnapper1674

chitterling1675

sprite1684

carliea1689

urling1691

wirling1691

dwarf man1699

poppet1699

durgan1706

short-arse1706

tomtit1706

Lilliputian1726

wallydraigle1736

midge1757

minikin1761

squeeze-crab1785

minimum1796

niff-naff1808

titman1818

teetotum1822

squita1825

cradden1825

nyaff1825

weed1825

pinkeen1850

fingerling1864

Lilliput1867

thumbling1867

midget1869

inch1884

shorty1888

titch1888

skimpling1890

stub1890

scrap1898

pygmoid1922

lofty1933

peewee1935

smidgen1952

pint-size1954

pint-sized1973

munchkin1974

c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. 67 We borel men been shrympes.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 384 b He would have been a notorious Goliath over these little moathes, and simple shrimpes.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 On a suddeyn we behold a windbeaten hard shrimp, With lanck wan visadge.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 584 When he [sc. Hercules] was a babe, a childe, a shrimpe, Thus did he strangle Serpents.

?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 167 Thou art my mother, I thy sonne, thy shrimpe.

1615 Exchange Ware Second Hand (ed. 2) C 1 b Alas poore shrimpe, thou art nothing in my hands.

1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. 142 I wondered how such a shrimp as you could dragg about such a great carcass as mine.

1842 R. H. Barham Aunt Fanny in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 142 And all for a ‘Shrimp’ not as high as my hat—A little contemptible ‘Shaver’ like that!!

1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 35 Poor little shrimp that he was! [sc. Pope].

1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 85 He did look such a teeny shrimp climbing after me!

figurative.1634 Noble Souldier iii. ii The small ones [sc. poets] are but shrimpes of Poesie.

b. a shrimp of a —: a diminutive, a very minute or tiny —.

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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > thing small of its kind

decimo-sexto1594

diminutive1609

toy1665

a shrimp of aa1774

bantam1787

pygmy1838

yarkera1842

baby1847

smidgen1952

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 198 By continual ruminating upon this little shrimp of a possibility.

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. v. 79 If it bears me, it will not condescend to bend at your shrimp of a carcass.

1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 258 A little shrimp of a fellow named Fisher.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.

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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escruoëlle, a little Shrimp-resembling worme.

1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum A Shrimp Pye.

1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery v. 61 To make Shrimp Sauce.

1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 The shrimp-sauce not so good as..I used to eat in London.

1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) IV. iv. 192 The Shrimp-girl, a head, by Bartolozzi.

1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 111 Shrimpscalders and bugkillers, taylors and tylers.

1828 H. Davy Salmonia 62 Small shrimp-like aurelia.

1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiii. 113 A butter-boat of shrimp sauce.

1859 A. J. Munby Diary 18 July in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 39 She stood there leaning on her shrimp net (for she had been fishing).

1877 E. W. H. Holdsworth Sea Fisheries 130 The shrimp net used here for catching the brown or true shrimp, is peculiar to the Thames and its immediate neighbourhood, and is practically a beam-trawl.

1882 Cassell's Family Mag. 236/1 Shrimp-pink with white is one of the happiest and latest combinations.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 14 Model Shrimping Boat, showing how four shrimp nets are worked.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 11/2 She was dressed in a shrimp pink.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 192 They are sometimes taken by hook and line, with shrimp-bait.

1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee ii. 34 An airy slim boy in shrimp-colored tights.

1902 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 3/2 The pots were first made for the shrimpers of Pegwell Bay—to contain the shrimp-paste prepared there.

1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter ix. 291 Perhaps a sandwich, Gentleman's Relish or shrimp paste.

1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo vii. 137 The different shells, their sea-colours of pink and brown and rainbow and..shrimp-red.

1931 Daily Tel. 22 May 9/5 Her pale shrimp-pink chiffon dress was adorned with vertical frills and sunray pleats on the skirt.

1932 A. Huxley Brave New World iii. 38 Two shrimp-brown children emerged from a neighbouring shrubbery.

1973 J. Rossiter Manipulators viii. 90 A shrimp-pink shirt.

1976 Western Living (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia) June 50/2 A fishing village, processing salt fish, making shrimp paste, and doing a bit of duck-farming.

C2.

shrimp-boat n. a boat engaged in fishing for shrimps.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels fishing for shellfish or crustaceans

oyster boat1419

whelk-boat1419

dredger1600

lobster-boat1777

oyster scow1824

oysterer1828

shrimper1851

pungy1852

shrimp-boat1872

Morecambe Bay shrimper1874

crabber1883

skillinger1933

Morecambe Bay prawner1935

1872 B. Jerrold London p. viii Smacks, barges shrimp-boats.

1979 Guardian 22 Oct. 26/7 The size of mesh permitted on shrimp boats in British waters.

shrimp cocktail n. [cocktail n. 4b] a dish of boiled shrimps served cold in a sauce.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun] > shell-fish or crustacean dishes

musculadea1475

oyster loaf1747

clambake1835

lobster Newburg1914

tempura1920

moules marinière1928

scampi1930

lobster thermidor1933

shrimp cocktail1937

étouffée1958

chao tom1969

vongole1977

stuffie1980

1937 America's Cook Bk. 180 Lobster or shrimp cocktail... Chill thoroughly and serve in cocktail glasses.

1977 J. Wainwright Nest of Rats i. vi. 38 It was a nice meal. Shrimp cocktails, followed by a good mixed grill.

shrimp cracker n. a light, crisp cracker flavoured with shrimp and served as an accompaniment to East or South-East Asian food.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > crackers

watera1450

cracker1739

water biscuit1789

water cracker1803

cream cracker1906

Triscuit1906

saltine1907

shrimp cracker1969

1969 Listener 12 June 814/1 The village chief himself asked us to a dinner of dried deer and shrimp crackers, chicken and lettuce.

1975 J. van de Wetering Outsider in Amsterdam (1976) vi. 79 He..broke a piece of shrimp-crackers and grabbed the noodles.

shrimp-fixer n. (see quot. 1850).

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1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 82 Bopyrus squillarum. Shrimp-fixer.

shrimp gumbo n. U.S. a shrimp soup thickened with okra pods.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > fish-soup

coulis1603

fish-broth1660

bisque1715

fish-soup1723

anchovy-cullis1725

shrimp gumbo1805

fish-chowder1838

lobster bisque1895

ukha1911

shark's fin soup1933

zuppa di pesce1961

fish-broo-

1805 J. F. Watson in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 233 Shrimps are much eaten here; also a dish called gumbo. This last is made of every eatable substance, and especially of those shrimps which can be caught at any time.

1885 L. Hearn La Couisine Creole 21 (heading) Maigre shrimp gombo for Lent.

1889 J. Whitehead Steward's Handbk. iv. 337/2 Shrimp-gumbo..not boiled after gumbo is in.

1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 255 The supper was fresh shrimp gumbo, hot and highly spiced.

shrimp-hearted adj. pusillanimous.

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the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective]

arghc885

heartlessOE

bloodlessc1225

coward1297

faintc1300

nesha1382

comfortless1387

pusillanimousa1425

faint-heartedc1440

unheartyc1440

cowardous1480

hen-hearteda1529

cowardish1530

feigningc1540

white-livered1546

cowardly1551

faceless1567

pusillanime1570

liver-hearted1571

cowish1579

cowardise1582

coward-like1587

faint-heart1590

courageless1593

sheep-like1596

white-hearted1598

milky1602

milk-livered1608

undaring1611

lily-livereda1616

yarrow1616

flightful1626

chicken-hearted1629

poltroon1649

cow-hearted1660

whey-blooded1675

unbravea1681

nimble-heeled1719

dunghill1775

shrimp-hearted1796

chicken-livered1804

white-feathered1816

pluckless1821

chicken-spirited1822

milk-blooded1822

cowardy1836

yellow1856

yellow-livered1857

putty-hearted1872

uncourageous1878

chicken1883

piker1901

yellow-bellied1907

manso1932

scaredy-cat1933

chickenshit1940

cold-footed1944

1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. 187 You shrimp-hearted lubber.

shrimp-louse n. (see quot. 1850).

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1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 81 Ione thoracicus. Mud shrimp-louse.

shrimp plant n. an evergreen shrub, Justicia brandegeana (formerly Beloperone guttata), belonging to the family Acanthaceæ, native to Mexico, and bearing small white flowers hidden in clusters of pinkish-brown bracts.

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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian

ramgoat bush1566

burton-wood1697

cowage cherry1725

Jack-in-the-busha1726

screw tree1739

lady of the night1752

goatweed1756

solandra1797

silk-tassel1833

garrya1835

matico1839

choisya1840

Romneya1845

jointer1847

creosote-bush1851

creosote-plant1854

bridal wreath1856

ocotillo1856

adelaster1863

sage rose1864

white horse1864

tree poppy1866

Tacsonia1869

rain tree1877

piquillin bush1884

tassel-bush1891

bush poppy1899

Mexican orange1923

shrimp plant1941

1941 L. H. Bailey & E. Z. Bailey Hortus Second 101 [Beloperone]guttàta. Shrimp-plant.

1946 M. Free All about House Plants xvii. 153 The Shrimp Plant..is a comparatively new introduction to the house-plant scene.

1956 X. Field House Plants iii. 74 The Shrimp Plant has always been a favourite of mine. I delight in its prawn-like flowers.

1975 J. van de Wetering Tumbleweed (1976) ii. 18 There were plants on all window-sills..the shrimp plant with a pink growth at the end of each stalk.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	shrimp
释义	shrimpn. Brit. /ʃrɪmp/, U.S. /ʃrɪmp/ Forms: Middle English schrympe, Middle English–1500s schrimpe, shrympe, Middle English–1600s shrimpe, Middle English schrymp, scrymppe, srympe, shyrympe, 1500s schriemp, 1500s– shrimp. Etymology: Probably cognate with Middle High German (Middle German) schrimpen strong verb, to shrink up: see scrimp adj. and adv., scrimp v.; compare also shrim v.Sense 2 is probably directly from the etymological sense ‘shrunken creature’, but is now felt as transferred < 1. 1. a. Any of the slender, long-tailed, long-legged (chiefly marine) crustaceans of the genus Crangon and allied genera, closely related to the prawns; esp. C. vulgaris, the common shrimp, which inhabits the sand on the coasts of Great Britain and is a common article of food.Also, in a wider sense, applied to various similar crustaceans, as the families Mysidæ and Gammaridæ; see brine-shrimp n. at brine n. Compounds 2, fairy shrimp n. at fairy n. and adj. Compounds 4, opossum shrimp n., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > shrimp or prawn shrimp1327 prawn1336 prawn fish1552 crevette1878 camaron1880 gamba1950 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > tribe Caridea (shrimps and prawns) shrimp1327 prawn1336 Caridea1852 carid1907 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > member of family Crangonidae of Caridea shrimp1327 bunting1836 1327 Wardrobe Acc. 20 Edw. II 31/18 Shrimpis, 3d. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 42 Take þe Luce, an þe Perche, & þe Schrympe, & seþe hem. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 449/1 Schrymp, fysche, stingus. c1450 Brut 447 Grete Scrymppys. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 161 Shrympes welle pyked þe scales awey ye cast. 1553 P. Belon De Aquatilibus 273 Anglorum..pisces ex Tamesi & aliis Britanniæ fluminibus..Roches, Daces, Tenche, Ruff, Schriemp, Prans. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxv. 109 The Periwincle, Prawne, the Cockle, and the Shrimpe, For wanton womens tasts, or for weake stomacks bought. 1674 T. Flatman Belly God 97 An ore-charg'd Stomack roasted shrimps will ease. 1770 P. Pittman Present State European Settlem. Missisippi 5 Shrimps are found in the Mississippi as far as Natches. 1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) III. 389 The Shrimp is much smaller than the Prawn, and is by no means so much esteemed as food. 1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 49 She partook of shrimps and porter. 1890 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 26 280/1 The phantom shrimp (Caprella linearis) of S. Australia. collective singular.1869 A. J. Evans Vashti viii. 111 That boy..whose sublimest idea of heaven consists in the hope that its blessed sea of glass is brimming with golden shrimp. †b. Applied to a scaly monster. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > malignant monster > [noun] > types of warlockOE Catathlebac1300 lamiaa1382 shrimp?a1400 thing1888 snallygaster1940 ?a1400 Morte Arth. 767 His scoulders ware schalyde alle in clene syluere, Schreede ouer alle the schrympe with schrinkande poyntez. c. A shrimp or prawn used as a bait in angling. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > fish used as bait minnow1615 shrimp1856 squida1862 sliver1869 fion1875 snade1901 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > suborder Macrura > miscellaneous or unspecified types of shrimp beard1611 shrimplet1688 garnel1694 water shrimp1745 pandle1746 brine-shrimp1836 brine-worm1836 squilloid1852 well shrimp1853 glass-crab1855 shrimp1856 snapping shrimp1941 1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 236/2 Shrimps are used for angling in docks and canals, and are good baits for perch, if used alive. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 29/1 Odd attractions such as boiled shrimps, caddis-grubs, small frogs, maggots, wasp-grubs, &c. are sometimes successful. 1924 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 489/1 I would not trust the most experienced salmon with Michael Lydon and a Galway ‘shrimp’. 1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 31 The shrimp will wake the lazy dozer, and he'll take it or your fly with a rush. 1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 180 Prawn and Shrimp Tackles. 1962 L. L. Bean Catal. 52 Bean's shrimp fly is an excellent imitation of the natural food for trout. d. A colour resembling that of a cooked shrimp, a bright shade of pink. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > [noun] > shades of red > pale red or pink > bright pink strawberry pink1675 crevette1884 shrimp1895 flamingo1897 cyclamen1923 shocking pink1938 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 12/1 Colored Surah silks..in the following colors: green..shrimp, wine. 1922 Daily Mail 20 Dec. 1 Lingerie Crepe... Pink, Sky, Jade, Flesh, Shrimp, Saxe. 1927 T. Woodhouse Artificial Silk: Manuf. & Uses 81 The particulars of the colours and patterns are as under—No. 1. A shrimp ordinary crochet pattern. 1975 New Yorker 26 May 81 (advt.) This plain white steerhide belt reverses to cool summer shades including seafoam green, shrimp, bone. 2. a. A diminutive or puny person (rarely thing). Chiefly contemptuous. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [noun] > person dwarfeOE congeonc1230 go-by-ground?a1300 smalla1300 shrimpc1386 griga1400 gruba1400 murche1440 nirvil1440 mitinga1450 witherling1528 wretchocka1529 elf1530 hop-o'-my-thumb1530 pygmy1533 little person1538 manikin1540 mankin1552 dandiprat1556 yrle1568 grundy1570 Jack Sprat1570 squall1570 manling1573 Tom Thumb1579 pinka1585 squib1586 screaling1594 giant-dwarf1598 twattle1598 agate1600 minimus1600 cock sparrow1602 dapperling1611 modicum1611 scrub1611 sesquipedalian1615 dwarflinga1618 wretchcock1641 homuncio1643 whip-handle1653 homuncule1656 whippersnapper1674 chitterling1675 sprite1684 carliea1689 urling1691 wirling1691 dwarf man1699 poppet1699 durgan1706 short-arse1706 tomtit1706 Lilliputian1726 wallydraigle1736 midge1757 minikin1761 squeeze-crab1785 minimum1796 niff-naff1808 titman1818 teetotum1822 squita1825 cradden1825 nyaff1825 weed1825 pinkeen1850 fingerling1864 Lilliput1867 thumbling1867 midget1869 inch1884 shorty1888 titch1888 skimpling1890 stub1890 scrap1898 pygmoid1922 lofty1933 peewee1935 smidgen1952 pint-size1954 pint-sized1973 munchkin1974 c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Prol. 67 We borel men been shrympes. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 384 b He would have been a notorious Goliath over these little moathes, and simple shrimpes. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 61 On a suddeyn we behold a windbeaten hard shrimp, With lanck wan visadge. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 584 When he [sc. Hercules] was a babe, a childe, a shrimpe, Thus did he strangle Serpents. View more context for this quotation ?1602 Narcissus (MS Bodl. Rawl. poet. 212) (1893) 167 Thou art my mother, I thy sonne, thy shrimpe. 1615 Exchange Ware Second Hand (ed. 2) C 1 b Alas poore shrimpe, thou art nothing in my hands. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. 142 I wondered how such a shrimp as you could dragg about such a great carcass as mine. 1842 R. H. Barham Aunt Fanny in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 142 And all for a ‘Shrimp’ not as high as my hat—A little contemptible ‘Shaver’ like that!! 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 35 Poor little shrimp that he was! [sc. Pope]. 1905 E. Glyn Vicissitudes Evangeline 85 He did look such a teeny shrimp climbing after me! figurative.1634 Noble Souldier iii. ii The small ones [sc. poets] are but shrimpes of Poesie. b. a shrimp of a —: a diminutive, a very minute or tiny —. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > smallness > [noun] > that which is small > a small thing > thing small of its kind decimo-sexto1594 diminutive1609 toy1665 a shrimp of aa1774 bantam1787 pygmy1838 yarkera1842 baby1847 smidgen1952 a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 198 By continual ruminating upon this little shrimp of a possibility. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. v. 79 If it bears me, it will not condescend to bend at your shrimp of a carcass. 1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 258 A little shrimp of a fellow named Fisher. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Escruoëlle, a little Shrimp-resembling worme. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum A Shrimp Pye. 1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery v. 61 To make Shrimp Sauce. 1758 T. Warton Idler 2 Dec. 273 The shrimp-sauce not so good as..I used to eat in London. 1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) IV. iv. 192 The Shrimp-girl, a head, by Bartolozzi. 1791 G. Huddesford Salmagundi 111 Shrimpscalders and bugkillers, taylors and tylers. 1828 H. Davy Salmonia 62 Small shrimp-like aurelia. 1856 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. xiii. 113 A butter-boat of shrimp sauce. 1859 A. J. Munby Diary 18 July in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 39 She stood there leaning on her shrimp net (for she had been fishing). 1877 E. W. H. Holdsworth Sea Fisheries 130 The shrimp net used here for catching the brown or true shrimp, is peculiar to the Thames and its immediate neighbourhood, and is practically a beam-trawl. 1882 Cassell's Family Mag. 236/1 Shrimp-pink with white is one of the happiest and latest combinations. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 14 Model Shrimping Boat, showing how four shrimp nets are worked. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Sept. 11/2 She was dressed in a shrimp pink. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 192 They are sometimes taken by hook and line, with shrimp-bait. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee ii. 34 An airy slim boy in shrimp-colored tights. 1902 Daily Chron. 28 Aug. 3/2 The pots were first made for the shrimpers of Pegwell Bay—to contain the shrimp-paste prepared there. 1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter ix. 291 Perhaps a sandwich, Gentleman's Relish or shrimp paste. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo vii. 137 The different shells, their sea-colours of pink and brown and rainbow and..shrimp-red. 1931 Daily Tel. 22 May 9/5 Her pale shrimp-pink chiffon dress was adorned with vertical frills and sunray pleats on the skirt. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World iii. 38 Two shrimp-brown children emerged from a neighbouring shrubbery. 1973 J. Rossiter Manipulators viii. 90 A shrimp-pink shirt. 1976 Western Living (Vancouver, Brit. Columbia) June 50/2 A fishing village, processing salt fish, making shrimp paste, and doing a bit of duck-farming. C2. shrimp-boat n. a boat engaged in fishing for shrimps. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels fishing for shellfish or crustaceans oyster boat1419 whelk-boat1419 dredger1600 lobster-boat1777 oyster scow1824 oysterer1828 shrimper1851 pungy1852 shrimp-boat1872 Morecambe Bay shrimper1874 crabber1883 skillinger1933 Morecambe Bay prawner1935 1872 B. Jerrold London p. viii Smacks, barges shrimp-boats. 1979 Guardian 22 Oct. 26/7 The size of mesh permitted on shrimp boats in British waters. shrimp cocktail n. [cocktail n. 4b] a dish of boiled shrimps served cold in a sauce. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > fish dishes > [noun] > shell-fish or crustacean dishes musculadea1475 oyster loaf1747 clambake1835 lobster Newburg1914 tempura1920 moules marinière1928 scampi1930 lobster thermidor1933 shrimp cocktail1937 étouffée1958 chao tom1969 vongole1977 stuffie1980 1937 America's Cook Bk. 180 Lobster or shrimp cocktail... Chill thoroughly and serve in cocktail glasses. 1977 J. Wainwright Nest of Rats i. vi. 38 It was a nice meal. Shrimp cocktails, followed by a good mixed grill. shrimp cracker n. a light, crisp cracker flavoured with shrimp and served as an accompaniment to East or South-East Asian food. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > crackers watera1450 cracker1739 water biscuit1789 water cracker1803 cream cracker1906 Triscuit1906 saltine1907 shrimp cracker1969 1969 Listener 12 June 814/1 The village chief himself asked us to a dinner of dried deer and shrimp crackers, chicken and lettuce. 1975 J. van de Wetering Outsider in Amsterdam (1976) vi. 79 He..broke a piece of shrimp-crackers and grabbed the noodles. shrimp-fixer n. (see quot. 1850). ΚΠ 1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 82 Bopyrus squillarum. Shrimp-fixer. shrimp gumbo n. U.S. a shrimp soup thickened with okra pods. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > fish-soup coulis1603 fish-broth1660 bisque1715 fish-soup1723 anchovy-cullis1725 shrimp gumbo1805 fish-chowder1838 lobster bisque1895 ukha1911 shark's fin soup1933 zuppa di pesce1961 fish-broo- 1805 J. F. Watson in Amer. Pioneer (1843) 2 233 Shrimps are much eaten here; also a dish called gumbo. This last is made of every eatable substance, and especially of those shrimps which can be caught at any time. 1885 L. Hearn La Couisine Creole 21 (heading) Maigre shrimp gombo for Lent. 1889 J. Whitehead Steward's Handbk. iv. 337/2 Shrimp-gumbo..not boiled after gumbo is in. 1938 C. H. Matschat Suwannee River 255 The supper was fresh shrimp gumbo, hot and highly spiced. shrimp-hearted adj. pusillanimous. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > cowardice or pusillanimity > [adjective] arghc885 heartlessOE bloodlessc1225 coward1297 faintc1300 nesha1382 comfortless1387 pusillanimousa1425 faint-heartedc1440 unheartyc1440 cowardous1480 hen-hearteda1529 cowardish1530 feigningc1540 white-livered1546 cowardly1551 faceless1567 pusillanime1570 liver-hearted1571 cowish1579 cowardise1582 coward-like1587 faint-heart1590 courageless1593 sheep-like1596 white-hearted1598 milky1602 milk-livered1608 undaring1611 lily-livereda1616 yarrow1616 flightful1626 chicken-hearted1629 poltroon1649 cow-hearted1660 whey-blooded1675 unbravea1681 nimble-heeled1719 dunghill1775 shrimp-hearted1796 chicken-livered1804 white-feathered1816 pluckless1821 chicken-spirited1822 milk-blooded1822 cowardy1836 yellow1856 yellow-livered1857 putty-hearted1872 uncourageous1878 chicken1883 piker1901 yellow-bellied1907 manso1932 scaredy-cat1933 chickenshit1940 cold-footed1944 1796 M. Robinson Angelina II. 187 You shrimp-hearted lubber. shrimp-louse n. (see quot. 1850). ΚΠ 1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 81 Ione thoracicus. Mud shrimp-louse. shrimp plant n. an evergreen shrub, Justicia brandegeana (formerly Beloperone guttata), belonging to the family Acanthaceæ, native to Mexico, and bearing small white flowers hidden in clusters of pinkish-brown bracts. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > American or West Indian ramgoat bush1566 burton-wood1697 cowage cherry1725 Jack-in-the-busha1726 screw tree1739 lady of the night1752 goatweed1756 solandra1797 silk-tassel1833 garrya1835 matico1839 choisya1840 Romneya1845 jointer1847 creosote-bush1851 creosote-plant1854 bridal wreath1856 ocotillo1856 adelaster1863 sage rose1864 white horse1864 tree poppy1866 Tacsonia1869 rain tree1877 piquillin bush1884 tassel-bush1891 bush poppy1899 Mexican orange1923 shrimp plant1941 1941 L. H. Bailey & E. Z. Bailey Hortus Second 101 [Beloperone]guttàta. Shrimp-plant. 1946 M. Free All about House Plants xvii. 153 The Shrimp Plant..is a comparatively new introduction to the house-plant scene. 1956 X. Field House Plants iii. 74 The Shrimp Plant has always been a favourite of mine. I delight in its prawn-like flowers. 1975 J. van de Wetering Tumbleweed (1976) ii. 18 There were plants on all window-sills..the shrimp plant with a pink growth at the end of each stalk. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). shrimpv. Brit. /ʃrɪmp/, U.S. /ʃrɪmp/ Etymology: < shrimp n. 1. intransitive. To fish for shrimps. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing for type of fish > fish for type of fish [verb (intransitive)] > for prawns or shrimps shrimp1844 prawn1886 yabby1941 1844 M. Hole Diary 26 Aug. in B. Massingham Turn on Fountains (1974) ii. 39 Making the most of our last day at old Blackpool... Loafed. Shrimped. 1926 R. Macaulay Crewe Train ii. v. 119 Torquay wasn't bad. One could shrimp and prawn and fish. 1938 Mississippi (U.S. Works Progress Admin.) 169 In many instances, however, boats are oystering at one season and shrimping at another. 2. transitive. To fish (a pool, etc.) with shrimp as a bait. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (transitive)] > bait a hook > fish pool, etc., with specific bait spin1886 shrimp1931 1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 31 And remember too that you may shrimp a pool in this manner and revert to fly without any fear of your pool being disturbed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1327v.1844
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