shrimp
English
/ʃɹɪmp/
noun
Definitions
- 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.
- (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
- (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English schrimpe (puny person, shrimp) derived from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (shrivelled), *skrimpaną (shrink, shrivel) derived from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr̥mb-.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*skremb-, *skr̥mb-
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- boat English
- fish English
- scrump English
- scrumper English
- scrumpy English
- shrimpboat English
- shrimpburger English
- shrimper English
- shrimpery English
- shrimpfish English
- shrimpfurter English
- shrimpiness English
- shrimpless English
- shrimplet English
- shrimplike English
- shrimpling English
- shrimpy English
- *(s)ker- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kerbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *skremb-, *skr̥mb- Proto-Indo-European
- *skrimpaną Proto-Germanic
- *skrimpaz Proto-Germanic
- schrimpe Middle English
- skreppa Old Norse
- scrum Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- shkrumb Albanian
- schrimpen Middle Low German
- scrum Aromanian
- *iš-kruma Proto-Albanian