shrimp

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small sea creature with a shell and a long tail, often eaten as food.

   We had grilled shrimp for dinner.

2. 2
   verb

   To catch or fish for shrimp.

   The family goes shrimping along the coast every summer.

Common collocations

• brine shrimp Noun + noun

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 *skremb-, *skr̥mb-. 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 shkrum…

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