- 1蝦、小蝦（食物）／矮小的人（口語，帶點取笑意味）
A shrimp is a small sea animal with a shell and a long body, related to and crabs, and popular as food - think shrimp cocktail or fried shrimp. , and a little , calling a person 'a shrimp' means teasing them for being small or short.
From the word’s history
From Middle English schrimpe 'shrimp, puny person', possibly related to Middle Low German schrempen 'to wrinkle'.
源自中古英文 schrimpe「蝦；瘦小的人」，可能和「皺縮」的字有關。
原始詞典資料9 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Shrimpnoun
- 1
ball-gamesgameshobbiesA player, supporter or other person connected with Morecambe Football Club.
shrimpnoun/ʃɹɪmp/
- 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.
- 2
The flesh of such crustaceans.
- 3
slangA small, puny or unimportant person.
- 4
slangSynonym of butterface
- 5
derogatoryslangA small penis.
- shrimp dick
shrimpverb/ʃɹɪmp/
- 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.
- 2
To contract; to shrink.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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