shrimped, pa. pple. Now dial.
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[f. *shrimp, parallel form to scrimp a. or v. + -ed.]
Shrivelled, withered, shrunk; huddled up with cold.
| 1638 Rous Diary (Camden) 85 His hands were both shrimped and lame. 1670 Eachard Cont. Clergy 36 Such things as these go for Wit so long as they continue in Latin; but what dismally shrimp'd things would they appear, if turn'd into English. 1837 Mrs. Palmer Devon. Dial. i. 19 Seeing Batt a shrimp'd up, her nadded and mean'd to en, that a shud come by the vire. |