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prawn
[ prawn ]
noun
- any of various shrimplike decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc., certain of which are used as food.
verb (used with object)
- to catch prawns, as for food.
prawn
/ prɔːn /
noun
- any of various small edible marine decapod crustaceans of the genera Palaemon, Penaeus, etc, having a slender flattened body with a long tail and two pairs of pincers
- come the raw prawn informal.to attempt deception
Derived Forms
- ˈprawner, noun
Other Words From
- prawner noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of prawn1
Word History and Origins
Origin of prawn1
Idioms and Phrases
- come the raw prawn, Australian Slang. to try to impose on or deceive someone (followed by with ).
Example Sentences
Ivory Coast's national dish attiéké has gained UN cultural heritage status, along with Japanese sake, Thai prawn soup and Caribbean cassava bread.
Inside a harbourside factory in the capital, a huge catch of prawns is being steamed, shelled and frozen.
Restrictions on scallop dredging and prawn trawling required additional legislation which ministers promised to introduce in two stages.
Between overfishing, climate change, plastic pollution, and habitat destruction, it’s a bad time to be a prawn, cod, seabird, or whale.
He adds that the rivers surrounding the mine are thriving due to copious rainfall and all his reports show that fish, algae and prawns flourish there and are public for anyone to see.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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