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shrimp | german |

As a noun shrimp

is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with.

As a proper noun german is

a german, teuton.

shrimp

English

(wikipedia shrimp)

Etymology 1

From Middle English ).

Noun

  • 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.
  • * 1851 , "A Lady of Charleston" (Sarah Rutledge), The Carolina Housewife , 2013, unnumbered page,
    • 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.
  • * 1998 , Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management , page 605,
    • Shrimp' farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's ' shrimp farms.
  • * 2011 , Will Holtham, Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha's Vineyard , page 142,
    • 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 .
  • * 2004 , Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification , page 145,
    • 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.
  • (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
  • (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
    • Synonyms
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fish for shrimp .
  • * 1986 , The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America , page 454,
    • Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:.
  • * 1996 , Anthony V. Margavio, Caught in the Net: The Conflict Between Shrimpers and Conservationists , page 24,
    • Although the line is not always sharply drawn, offshore shrimping' and inshore ' shrimping require different strategies.
  • * 2007 , Jerry Wayne Caines, A Caines Family Tradition: A Native Son's Story of Fishing, Hunting and Duck Decoys in the Lowcountry , page 86,
    • 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.

    Related terms

    * shrimper

    Etymology 2

    Compare (etyl) , (etyl) schrumpfen.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To contract; to shrink.
    • (Webster 1913) English nouns with irregular plurals

    german

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (abbreviation):

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A native or inhabitant of Germany; a person of German citizenship or nationality.
  • A member of the Germanic ethnic group which is the most populous ethnic group in Germany; a person of German descent.
  • A member of a Germanic tribe.
    • Rome was sacked by Germans and the Western Roman Empire collapsed.

    Synonyms

    * (member of the German ethnic group) Teuton * (member of the German ethnic group) Boche, Fritz, Hun, Jerry, Kraut (qualifier)

    Hypernyms

    * European

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An Indo-European (Indo-Germanic) language, primarily spoken in Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, South Tyrol, Switzerland, Luxembourg and a small part of Belgium.
    • German has three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter.

    Synonyms

    * (language) High German

    See also

    * (de) * Language list *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the nation of Germany.
  • * 2001 , Donald L. Niewyk, The Jews in Weimar Germany (ISBN 0765806924), page 31:
    • In Prussia, always the most progressive of the German states during the Weimar years and a stronghold of the two parties, Jews could be found in virtually all administrative departments .
  • Of or relating to the natives or inhabitants of Germany; to people of German descent.
    • Her German husband has blond hair.
  • Of, in or relating to the German language.
    • We take German classes twice a week.
    Because the instructions were German , Yves couldn't read them.

    Synonyms

    * Teutonic

    Statistics

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    External links

    * Leo's German - English Dictionary]: from [http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/home_e.html Department of Informatics of Technische Universität München *

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