prawn

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Then add prawn, and continue stir-frying until prawn is nearly cooked.

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  1. noun Any of various edible crustaceans similar to but larger than the shrimps.
  2. intransitive verb To fish for prawns.

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  • Mr Claydon turned back to the monitor, then became aware that a prawn was on the chin of the patient. —  Signs of the Times
  • Then add prawn, and continue stir-frying until prawn is nearly cooked. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • The men who used phantom, prawn, and worm, however much and often they were made to writhe under his sneers, felt that in maintaining the artificial fly as the only lure with which the noble salmon should be tempted, he was on a lofty plane, and, if not unassailable, had better be left there in his vain glory. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
  • As for my tub, I shall consider it a personal favor, gentlemen, if you will never again mention that unfortunate article in my presence He came very near being boiled alive in it," whispered Gladwyn to Captain Dalzell What Yes, like a prawn or a crayfish By Jove! —  At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear
  • So would the prawn, and as solid as you please; who in his own home is colourless and transparent as any ghost Strangely beautiful those prawns are when you see them at home. —  Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English praine, prane.

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  1. Early modern English also praun, prane; from Middle English prane, a prawn; perhaps transposed from an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne, a prawn (?), = Spanish perna, a flat shell-fish, = Old Italian perna, “a nakre or narre-fish” (Florio), cf. diminutive parnocchie, plural, “shrimps or prawne fishes” (Florio), from Latin perna, a sea-mussel, so called from its shape, from perna (later Old French perne), ham.
 

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