Woman vs Shrimp - What's the difference?
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An adult female human.
* Bible, (w) 2:22:
* (John Ledyard) (1751-1789)
* 1887 , Helen Campbell, Prisoners of poverty: their trades and their lives , p.120:
(lb) All females collectively; womankind.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
* 1997 , Bob Grant, Let's Be Heard , p.42:
* 2011 , Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In , p.109:
A wife (or sometimes a or girlfriend).
* 1914 , , Study of Thomas Hardy and Other Essays , chapter 7: "Of Being and Not-Being":
A female who is extremely fond of or devoted to a specified type of thing.
* 2004 , Hyveth Williams, Secrets of a Happy Heart: A Fresh Look at the Sermon on the Mount , p.70:
A female attendant or servant.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To staff with female labor.
* 1956 , Rex Stout, Three Witnesses , The Viking Press, page 54
* 1990 , Stephen King, The stand: the complete & uncut edition
* 2010 , Julia Glass, The Widower's Tale , page 77
To make effeminate or womanish.
* 1598 , , III. ii. 50:
To furnish with, or unite to, a woman.
* 1603 , , III. iv. 191:
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,
* 1998 , Claude E. Boyd, Pond Aquaculture Water Quality Management ,
* 2011 , Will Holtham, Home Port Cookbook: Beloved Recipes from Martha's Vineyard ,
* 2004 , Gary C. B. Poore, Shane T. Ahyong, Marine Decapod Crustacea of Southern Australia: A Guide to Identification ,
(uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
(slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.
To fish for shrimp .
* 1986 , The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America ,
* 1996 , Anthony V. Margavio, Caught in the Net: The Conflict Between Shrimpers and Conservationists ,
* 2007 , Jerry Wayne Caines, A Caines Family Tradition: A Native Son's Story of Fishing, Hunting and Duck Decoys in the Lowcountry ,
As nouns the difference between woman and shrimp
is that woman is an adult female human while shrimp is (soccer) a player, supporter or other person connected with.As a verb woman
is to staff with female labor.woman
English
(wikipedia woman)Alternative forms
* womon, womyn, wymyn * wimmen, wimmenNoun
(women)- And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman .
- I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than the men
- But this woman' is a nice German ' woman that fell on the ice and sprained her ankle last winter, and we saw to her well as we could till she got better.
- For if modern woman is so intent on keeping her surname alive, why not demand it be passed along to her children?
- Unsurprisingly, if modern man is a sort of camera, modern woman is a picture.
- And then, when he lies with his woman , the man may concurrently be with God, and so get increase of his soul.
- Perhaps my problem is that I am a cat woman . I can't imagine any finicky feline (and they all are that at one time or another) slobbering over anyone, even a beloved owner, the way a dog does.
- By her woman I sent your message.
Synonyms
* see * female * ladyAntonyms
* (age ): girl * (gender ): manDerived terms
* cleaning woman * firewoman * gentlewoman * kept woman * little woman * medicine woman * old woman * other woman * policewoman * womanish * womanly * womanhood * woman suffrage * woman's work * womenfolk * womenhood * women’s libVerb
(en verb)- Apparently the Sixty-ninth Street office of Bagby Answers, Inc., was being womaned for the day from other offices.
- Gus Dinsmore, the public beach parking lot attendent, said he guessed that so many cars must be just stopped dead along the road that even those manned (or womaned ) by able drivers would be unable to move.
- The information desk is now manned (womaned ) by someone whose main job is to help you reserve time slots for the computers or guide you through the arduous process of “logging on.”
- I have felt so many quirks of joy and grief / That the first face of neither on the start / Can woman me unto't.
- And think it no addition, nor my wish, / To have him see me woman'd .
See also
* fair sex * female * feminine * femme * gal * girl * goddess * lady * weaker vessel *shrimp
English
(wikipedia shrimp)Etymology 1
From Middle English ).Noun
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- 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.
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- Shrimp' farming is in its infancy in Africa. but Asia has most of the world's ' shrimp farms.
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- 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 .
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- 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.
Synonyms
*Verb
(en verb)page 454,
- Fishing, shrimping and crabbing are permitted on designated areas of the refuge subject to the following conditions:.
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- Although the line is not always sharply drawn, offshore shrimping' and inshore ' shrimping require different strategies.
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- 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.