shrimpling

shrimpling

English

Etymology

From shrimp +‎ -ling.

Noun

shrimpling (plural shrimplings)

1. A young or miniature shrimp.
   • 1903, Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, Fishing:

     […] not very unlike a black pin in length and obesity — the gauze-bottomed trays containing the adult shrimp are simply 'shaken over the water,' and innumerable semi-microscopic shrimplings are promptly extruded and drop into the fry-tank […]

   • 1989, Brendan Galvin, Wampanoag Traveler:

     Their own sky is but a ceiling ringed with painted nymphs, and could I drop one of those shrimplings overboard, just as a great ray is passing, its breadth that of two gentlemen's cloaks, […]

   • 2005, Sam Lowe, You Know You're in Arizona When--::

     He filled the ponds with water, then dumped in thousands of shrimplings (purchased from hatcheries outside the state) and called the operation Desert Sweet Shrimp.