Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - shrimp
Shrimp
shrimp
n. & v. --n. 1 (pl. same or shrimps) any of various small (esp. marine) edible crustaceans, with ten legs, grey-green when alive and pink when boiled. 2 colloq. a very small slight person. --v.intr. go catching shrimps. Phrases and idioms shrimp plant an evergreen shrub, Justicia brandegeana, bearing small white flowers in clusters of pinkish-brown bracts. Derivatives shrimper n. Etymology: ME, prob. rel. to MLG schrempen wrinkle, MHG schrimpfen contract, and SCRIMP
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I. noun (plural ~s or ~) Etymology: Middle English ~e; akin to Middle Low German schrempen to contract, wrinkle, Old Norse skorpna to shrivel up Date: 14th century any of numerous mostly small and marine decapod crustaceans (suborders Dendrobranchiata and Pleocyemata) having a slender elongated body, a compressed abdomen, and a long spiny rostrum and including some (especially family Penaeidae) that are commercially important as food, a very small or puny person or thing, ~like adjective ~y adjective II. intransitive verb Date: 1808 to fish for or catch ~s ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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