different between yabby vs shrimp

English

Alternative forms

• yabbie

Etymology

Borrowed from Wemba-Wemba yabij.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jæb.i/
• Rhymes: -æbi

Noun

yabby (plural yabbies)

1. (Australia) A freshwater Australian crayfish of the genus Cherax, especially Cherax destructor.
   • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber 2003, p. 386:

     Having arrived at night I can speak with some authority on the desolate feeling the road produces: the white fire-scarred trunks, the unsettling vision of yabbies moving from one side of the road to the other.

2. (Australia) A type of ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea.

Derived terms

• bass yabby

See also

• gilgie, jilgie
• marron

Verb

yabby (third-person singular simple present yabbies, present participle yabbying, simple past and past participle yabbied)

1. (intransitive) To search for yabbies.

English

Etymology

From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”) (compare Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”)), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpan? (“to shrivel”) (compare Old English s?rimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”)), from Proto-Indo-European *skremb-, *skr?mb- (compare Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???mp/
• Rhymes: -?mp

Noun

shrimp (countable and uncountable, plural shrimp or shrimps)

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.
   • 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.

2. (uncountable) The flesh of such crustaceans.
3. (slang) A small, puny or unimportant person.

Synonyms

• (crustacean; flesh of crustacean): prawn (Australia, Canada, UK and US)

Translations

Derived terms

• land shrimp
• popcorn shrimp

Verb

shrimp (third-person singular simple present shrimps, present participle shrimping, simple past and past participle shrimped)

1. (intransitive) 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.

2. To contract; to shrink.

Derived terms

• shrimper