(Used especially of persons) of inferior size.
1 He goes to a turtleneck-sweatered woman speaking to a shrimpy , goateed man.
2 And he didn't even like dogs, let alone ugly, shrimpy , psychologically challenged ones.
3 Wiping her shrimpy hands with a dish towel, she hurried across the room to pick up the phone.
4 What's this shrimpy thing?'
5 The best part of the business is not the two haunches with the shrimpy flavor, but what I have just learnt.
6 They both wore white tunics with green bindings; the livery was all too familiar: the Gordianus steward and his shrimpy sidekick.
7 They were probably trying to picture their shrimpy little brother Kronos taking on their huge violent dad, and they weren't liking the odds.
8 No one is gonna think you're a shrimpy little kid, because you're angry and you're taking on the big issues of the day.
9 The cost was a major insult to our budget and our bank account; and I gather the dangers we staved off were rather shrimpy .
10 "I keep looking at the shrimpy guys in the stained-glass windows," he said.
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