Noun: shrimp
| Singular | shrimp |
| Plural | shrimp; shrimps |
Sample Sentences
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Butter well a deep dish, upon which place a thick layer of pounded biscuit; having picked and boiled your shrimps, put them upon the biscuit; a layer of shrimps, with small pieces of butter, a little pepper, mace or nutmeg. [1851, Sarah Rutledge, “A Lady of Charleston”, in The Carolina Housewife, published 2013, unnumbered page:]
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Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms. [1998, Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management, page 605:]
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Most shrimps belong to one of several families of the Infraorder Caridea (Chapter 4). However, coral shrimps and Venus shrimps are so different from the rest that a separate infraorder is warranted. [2004, Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification, page 145:]
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America's favorite seafood, shrimp has always been a big seller at the Home Port. On any given day, we usually served around 40 to 50 pounds of shrimp. [2011, Will Holtham, Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha's Vineyard, page 142:]
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How many shrimps do you have to eat / Before you make your skin turn pink? / Eat too much and you'll get sick / Shrimps are pretty rich [2014, Kero Kero Bonito, “Flamingo” (overall work in English and Japanese):]
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shrimp dick
Nouns inflected like shrimp
seiyuu,
sensei,
senryu,
whaanau,
xianbing,
samlor,
salumi,
salmon,
sika deer,
shrimp,
shumai,
eastern moa,
Guarani-Kaiowá,
northern shrimp,
izakaya,
pūkeko,
autopaizuri,
yukata,
yueqin,
panzerotti, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ-der.
4. Proto-Indo-European *skrembʰ-
5. Proto-Germanic *skrimbaną
6. Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną
7. Proto-Germanic *skrimpazder.?
8. Middle English schrimpe
9. English shrimp
10. 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-.
11. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
schrimpe', Old English Nouns '
sċrimman'.
Verbs referencing "shrimp"
English Nouns
scrump, German Nouns
Shrimp.