shrimpedadj.
/ʃrɪmpt/ Now dialect.
Shrivelled, withered, shrunk; huddled up with cold.
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the world > space > relative position > posture > act of drawing body into compact form > [adjective] > huddled up with cold
shrimped1638
the world > space > extension in space > reduction in size or extent > [adjective] > relating to contraction > into wrinkles > contracted into wrinkles
clungc1325
clinkery1398
hirpleda1400
clunged1495
wrinkled?1523
shrivelled1565
rivelled1601
puckered1606
rivelled1627
shrimped1638
truss1674
pursed1676
wizened1728
weazen1765
wizen1786
nirled1808
beshrivelled1821
weazened1842
weazeny1864
concertinaed1880
swivelled1898
scrunty1947
1638 J. Rous Diary (1856) 85 His hands were both shrimped and lame.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 36 Such things as these go for Wit so long as they continue in Latin; but what dismally shrimp'd things would they appear, if turn'd into English.
a1794 M. Palmer Dialogue Devonshire Dial. (1837) 19 Seeing Batt a shrimp'd up, her nadded and mean'd to en, that a shud come by the vire.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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