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shrimpy

a. Resembling shrimp; shrimplike.

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shrimpy

adj. (used especially of persons) of inferior size [syn: puny, runty]

Usage examples of "shrimpy".

Sometimes I was shrimp and he was the shrimpy taste of me on his tongue.

Rock Hill could smell that championship clear as the shrimpy salt air wafting up from the Gulf.

Billie would have laughed at the irony of this shrimpy little fuck with a name bigger than him.

It held a shallow plate filled with a thin, shrimpy gruel, which the pantywaists apparently had been drinking.

He kept on staring at the gruel, and presently a solitary tear dropped into it with a thin, shrimpy splash.

The one who had stuck with the driver was a shrimpy little postadolescent with bad acne scars, buck teeth, and long, dirty red hair.

Opposite the huge Neanderthal called Monk, he looked even shorter and more shrimpy than he was, the perfect caricature of the chain smoker who spends his afternoons at the racetrack and his evenings in a billiards hall.

Arvin, the shrimpy little Sprite, turned into what you thought of as a monster and dealt with the problem.

Bean would do a decent job, but the reason he'd have the respect of his soldiers was because he would carry some of Ender's reflected glory with him, a shrimpy little Napoleon flumping around wearing a man's shoes while he barked commands in a little tiny child's voice.