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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: prawn
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The flesh of such crustaceans.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: prawn
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A small, puny or unimportant person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Synonym of butterface
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable
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Synonyms: prawn, biffer, boner-shrinker, bonerkiller, buttface, choad, frump, minger, monkey, monkeyface, munter, pukeface, schlub, stinka, troll, trollface, uggo, ugly duckling, toad, battle-ax, beldame, boot, brown-bagger, cunt, dog, gorgon, hag, harridan, moose, skag, skank, Sybil, two-bagger, whore, butterface
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A small penis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, derogatory, figuratively, slang, uncountable
Synonyms: baby carrot, baby cock, baby dick, dicklet, dickling, dicklit, clit, clitty, microdick, micropenis, microphallus, needle dick, pindick, shrimp dick, shrimp
Antonyms: cunt buster, donkey cock, donkey dick, horse cock, horse dick, monster cock, monsterdick, supercock, superdick, superpenis, third leg
noun
Acronym of sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
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noun
A player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, soccer, sports
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verb
To fish for shrimp.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To contract; to shrink.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers; many species are edible
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: decapod crustacean, decapod
Narrower terms: snapping shrimp, pistol shrimp
noun
any of various edible decapod crustaceans
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: prawn
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: seafood
Narrower terms: river prawn
noun
disparaging terms for small people
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: runt, peewee, half-pint
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: small person
verb
fish for shrimp
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: fish
History
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbh-der. Proto-Indo-European *skrembh- Proto-Germanic *skrimbaną Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną Proto-Germanic *skrimpazder.? Middle English schrimpe English shrimp 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 *(s)kerbh-. 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”).
Across languages
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