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SHRIMPY
Definition of SHRIMPY
adjective
Resembling or characteristic of shrimp; shrimplike.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Other senses
SHRIMPY carries 2 further meanings.
adjective
Resembling shrimp; shrimplike.
adjective
(used especially of persons) of inferior size
Where it comes from
From shrimp + -y.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, SHRIMP · 9 relatives in the game
SHRIMPY in a sentence
“I do like the perspective on the baby-to-be, and it beats the heck out of the little shrimpy images from my high-school health class. gwappa |”
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
SHRIMPY in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 38 boards so far. 134 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 24, 13 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 157, 24 October 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 24, 13 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
SHRIMPY starts with S and ends with Y. Sorted, its letters read HIMPRSY - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Words that start SHRIMP
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found SHRIMPY?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 24 - and most players walked straight past it.
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