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Prawn   /prɔn/   Listen
Prawn

noun
1.
Any of various edible decapod crustaceans.  Synonym: shrimp.
2.
Shrimp-like decapod crustacean having two pairs of pincers; most are edible.
verb
1.
Fish for prawns.



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"Prawn" Quotes from Famous Books



... eat of the best: Of chicken cream and pigeon in soy-ed, With a brown noodle of pork and prawn, And a curry of fish and a large Chung Goun, Sweet onions, and black eggs and chow chow. And when we have done, We will have cakes and tea, and music and songs, And call in our white friends ...
— Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse • Thomas Burke
... as if a bomb had suddenly exploded in the room. A dreadful silence fell upon his hearers. For the moment no one spoke. R. P. de Parys woke with a start out of a beautiful dream of prawn curry and Bromham Rhodes forgot that he had not tasted food for nearly two hours. Miss Verepoint was the first to break ...
— A Man of Means • P. G. Wodehouse and C. H. Bovill


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