shrimp

(Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
2. (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
3. (countable, slang, uncountable) A small, puny or unimportant person.
4. (countable, slang, uncommon, uncountable) Synonym of butterface
5. (countable, slang, uncountable) A small dick.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To fish for shrimp.
2. To contract; to shrink.

Oposto a

micropenis

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/ʃɹɪmp/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: schrimpe

Relativo a Middle High German: schrimpf

Relativo a noruegués: skramp

Relativo a Old English: sċrimman

Relativo a Middle High German: schrimpfen

Relativo a sueco: skrympa

Relativo a lituano: skrembti

Relativo a albanés: shkrumb

In summary

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 shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”).

Sinónimos

prawn

lobster

🦞

runt

crayfish

prawns

macroura

half-pint

peewee

midget

crawfish

kiddy

homunculus

crustacean

runty

shorty

shrimps

squirt

tiddler

weakling

wuss

kind of fish

manikin

Traducións

crevette

🦐

camarón

🦐

gamberetto

🦐

Garnele

🦐

gamba

🦐

krewetka

garnaal

🦐

camarão

🦐

gamba

🦵

karides

🦐

γαρίδα

quisquilla

🦐

granchiolino

Krabbe

🦀

gambero