Shrimp
. A child, a puny little fellow, in the same ratio to a man as a shrimp to a lobster. Fry is also used for children. (Anglo-Saxon, scrine-an, to shrink; Danish, skrumpe; Dutch, krimpen.)
“It cannot be this weak and writhled shrimp
Would strike such terror to his enemies.”
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Entry taken from
Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.