shrimp
意味
- (食用の)小エビ
- 《俗》ちび,子供;取るに足りない人
例文
Shrimps, crabs, and lobsters are crustaceans.
エビ・カニ・ロブスターは甲殻類です。
Tom is allergic to shrimps, but not lobster.
トムって、海老アレルギーなんだけど、ロブスターは大丈夫なのよ。
I want half a kilo of fresh shrimps.
生エビが500グラム欲しいです。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English schrimpe (“shrimp, puny person”), possibly from or related to Middle Low German schrempen (“to wrinkle”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaz (“shrivelled”), from Proto-Germanic *skrimpaną (“to shrivel”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerbʰ-. See also Middle High German schrimpf (“a scratch, minor wound”), Norwegian skramp (“thin horse, thin man”); also Old English sċrimman (“to shrink”) and scrimp, Middle High German schrimpfen (“to shrink, dry up”), Swedish skrympa (“to shrink”); also Lithuanian skrembti (“to crust over, stiffen”), and possibly Albanian shkrumb (“embers, ashes; crumble”).