英语词汇shrimp的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	shrimp
词源	shrimp. Short people are not called shrimps because they re- semble the shellfish in size. As with sharks, it is the other way around. The common little European species Crago vulgaris was named shrimp from the Middle English word shrimpe, which meant a puny person.
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