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shrimpling

English

Etymology

From shrimp +? -ling.

Noun

shrimpling (plural shrimplings)

  1. A young or miniature shrimp.
    • 1903, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing:
      [] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank []
    • 1989, Brendan Galvin, Wampanoag Traveler:
      Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, []
    • 2005, Sam Lowe, You Know You're in Arizona When--::
      He filled the ponds with water, then dumped in thousands of shrimplings (purchased from hatcheries outside the state) and called the operation Desert Sweet Shrimp.

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scrimpling

English

Verb

scrimpling

  1. present participle of scrimple

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