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shrimp

sustantivoverbocorriente en diálogos

  • //ʃɹɪmp//

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.

sustantivo

  1. 1

    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.

    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.

    Shrimp farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's shrimp farms.

    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.

    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.

  2. 2

    The flesh of such crustaceans.

  3. 3

    jergaA small, puny or unimportant person.

  4. 4

    jergaSynonym of butterface

  5. 5

    figuradoA small penis.

    shrimp dick

Etimología

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-? Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ-der. Proto-Indo-European *skrembʰ- Proto-Germanic *skrimbaną Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną Proto-Germanic *skrimpazder.? Middle English schrimpe English shrimp 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-. 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”).

verbo

  1. 1

    To fish for shrimp.

    Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:[…]

    Although the line is not always sharply drawn, offshore shrimping and inshore shrimping require different strategies.

    There were times we shrimped in the same boat due to breakdowns and such, but for the most part we each had our own separate boat. We started out using outboard motor boats. However, shrimping with an outboard is pretty hard.

  2. 2

    To contract; to shrink.

Formas

plural
shrimps
pasado
shrimped
participio
shrimped
gerundio
shrimping
3.ª persona del singular
shrimps
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