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shrimped, pa. pple. Now dial. (ʃrɪmpt) [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 ...
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shram
shram, v. dial. (ʃræm) Also shramp, shramb. [A parallel form to scram v.1 (see scr-). Cf. shrim, shrimped.] trans. To benumb or paralyse with cold. Chiefly pass.1787 Grose Prov. Gloss., Shram'd, chilled. I am shram'd to death, I am dead with cold. W. 1865 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 5/2 Being ‘shrammed with ...
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shrimp
▪ I. shrimp, n. (ʃrɪmp) Forms: 4–5 schrympe, 4–6 schrimpe, shrympe, 4–7 shrimpe, 5 schrymp, scrymppe, srympe, shyrympe, 6 schriemp, 6– shrimp. [Prob. cogn. w. MHG. (MG.) schrimpen str. vb., to shrink up: see scrimp a. and v.; cf. also prec. Sense 2 is prob. directly from the etymological sense ‘shru...
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trot
▪ I. trot, n.1 (trɒt) Also 3–7 trott, 5–6 trotte, 5–7 trote. [a. F. trot (12th c. in Godef. Compl.), verbal n. of trotter to trot.] I. 1. a. A gait of a quadruped, originally of a horse, between walking and running, in which the legs move in diagonal pairs almost together, so that in a slow trot the...
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