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Definition of Shrimped
1. shrimp [v] - See also: shrimp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shrimped
Literary usage of Shrimped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1900)
"... upon classical phrases, thinning his judgment by academic wit; but academic
wit when turned from Latin into English, is a dismally shrimped thing. ..."
2. Puritan and Anglican: Studies in Literature by Edward Dowden (1901)
"... thinning his judgment by academic wit; but academic wit when turned from Latin
into English, is a dismally shrimped thing. For the most part an ordinary ..."
3. Diary of John Rous: Incumbent of Santon Downham, Suffolk, from 1625 to 1642 by John Rous, Mary Anne Everett Green (1856)
"His hands were both shrimped and lame. The Scottish troubles on foote. The Fennes
in some townes remaine still. Dividing of Commons. ..."
4. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Such things go for wit as long as they are in Latin, but what dismally shrimped
things would they appear if turned into English.—Echard in R. Du. krimpen, ..."
5. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood, John Christopher Atkinson (1872)
"Shrimp. Anything very small of its kind, a small shell-fish. Such things go for
wit as long as they are in Latin, but what dismally shrimped things would ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"Such things go for wit as long as they are in Latin, hut what dismally shrimped
things would they appear if turned into English.— Echard in R. Du. krimpen, ..."
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