shrimpishadj.
/ˈʃrɪmpɪʃ/ Diminutive, puny, insignificant.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > bodily height > shortness > [adjective]
shorta900
littleOE
lowa1398
untallc1535
dwarfish1542
shrimpish1549
pygmy1592
shrubby1603
dapper1606
punya1616
runtisha1642
truss1674
sesquipedalian1741
smally1764
petite1766
elfin1796
scram1825
squibbish1826
gnomic1845
dwarf-like1850
knee-high to a grasshopper1851
underhanded1856
nanoid1857
whipping-snapping1861
scrunty1868
midget1875
short-set1883
sawed-off1887
strunty1897
munchkin1930
sawn-off1936
short-arsed1951
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > of little importance or trivial
eathlyc890
lighteOE
littleOE
small?c1225
singlec1449
easy1474
triflous1509
naughty1526
slender1530
slight1548
shrimpish1549
slipper1567
truanta1572
toyous1581
trivious1583
mean1585
silly1587
nicea1594
puny?1594
puisne1598
pusill1599
whindling1601
sapless1602
non-significant1603
poor1603
unsignificant1603
flea-bite1605
perishing1605
lank1607
weightless1610
fonda1616
penny farthing1615
triviala1616
unweighty1621
transitory1637
twattling1651
inconsiderate1655
unserious1655
nugal1656
small drink1656
slighty1662
minute1668
paddling1679
snitling1682
retail1697
Lilliputian1726
vain1731
rattletrap1760
peppercornish1762
peppercorn1791
underling1804
venial1806
lightweight1809
floccinaucical1826
small-bore1833
minified1837
trantlum1838
piffling1848
tea-tabular1855
potty1860
whipping-snapping1861
tea-gardeny1862
quiddling1863
twaddling1863
fidgeting1865
penny ante1865
feather-weighted1870
jerkwater1877
midget1879
mimsy1880
shirttail1881
two-by-four1885
footle1894
skittery1905
footery1929
Mickey Mouse1931
chickenshit1934
minoritized1945
marginal1952
marginalized1961
tea-party1961
little league1962
marginalizing1977
minnowy1991
1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Div What will suche shrimpysshe bodies dooe..whan it cometh to handstrokes?
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiii. f. 159 Whose same shrimpish armes of his.
1655–87 H. More App. to Antidote Atheism vi. 330 How shrimpish he is and unfit to fill this place.
1664 Comenius' Janua Ling. 278 Slender, shrimpish, lean.
1881 R. C. Praed Policy & Passion II. ix. 145 A shrimpish sprig of nobility.
Derivatives
ˈshrimpishness n. insignificance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality
simpleness1440
toyousness1581
triflingnessa1586
triviality1598
pusillage1610
inconsiderableness1646
shrimpishness1651
unsignificancy1659
trivialnessa1687
no great things1776
cobwebbery1837
mereness1909
picayunity1948
1651 H. More Second Lash of Alazanomastix in Enthusiasmus Triumphatus (1656) 255 The shrimpishnesse of the second part of Eugenius his Answer.
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