jenny

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

A female creature of certain kinds:
(Australia) a female crab.

A female creature of certain kinds:
a female crab.


prawn

en-noun

prawn (countable and uncountable, plural prawn or prawns)

First attested early 1400s as various Middle English forms prayne, prane, praune, and prawne, which present no clear cognates in languages other than English. The forms suggest a hypothetical Old English form *prægn, where *æg would have evolved into Middle English *ay, but it is unclear if the word is of Germanic origin, from another European language, or loaned from a substrate. In the Isle of Wight, a word prankle ("prawn") is recorded and thought to be related. Century, following Skeat, suggested transposition of an unrecorded Old French *parne, *perne related to Spanish perna (“a flat shellfish”), Old Italian perna and diminutive pernochie, parnocchie, glossed as "shrimps or prawne, fishes" by John Florio, but the OED considers Florio's entry incorrect and the suggested connection semantically and phonologically implausible.
Sense 3 ("woman with attractive body and unattractive face") is from the idea of discarding the head of a prawn before eating it.

A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.

She's a prawn!

(Australia, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface: A woman with an attractive body but an unattractive face.

butterface

This is utter dribble. I've not read much worse than this in a long time - and he admits he doesn't know - "or so I am told". Get real, you prawn.

1999 August 2, Les Brown, “This old "almah" controversy”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):

He didn't say he was accused of that, prawn.

2001 February 1, Ned Latham, “Lovesick Puppy Poetry - Volume 1”, in aus.culture.true-blue (Usenet):


crayfish

crayfish (plural crayfishes or crayfish)

crayfishes (plural)
crayfish (plural)
crawfish (alternative)
craifish (alternative)
crafish (alternative)
crefish (alternative)
crevis (alternative)
crevyssh (alternative)

Alteration (by folk etymological influence of fish) of Middle English crevis, from Old French crevice ("crayfish"; > Modern French: écrevisse), from Frankish *krebitja (“crayfish”), diminutive of Frankish *krebit (“crab”), from Proto-Germanic *krabitaz (“crab, cancer”), from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-, *gerebʰ- (“to scratch, crawl”).
Akin to Old High German krebiz ("edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German Krebs (“crab”)), Middle Low German krēvet (“crab”), Dutch kreeft (“crayfish, lobster”), Old English crabba (“crab”). More at crab.

gloss

"crayfish"; > Modern French: <i class="Latn mention" lang="fr">écrevisse</i>

gloss

"edible crustacean, crab"; > Modern German <i class="Latn mention" lang="de">Krebs</i> (“crab”)

Any of numerous freshwater decapod crustaceans in superfamily Astacoidea or Parastacoidea, resembling the related lobster but usually much smaller.

(New England, Pennsylvania, Upper Midwestern US) A freshwater crustacean (family Cambaridae), sometimes used as an inexpensive seafood or as fish bait.

kreef

freshwater crustacean resembling lobster

(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa) A rock lobster (family Palinuridae).

(Australia) A freshwater crayfish (family Parastacidae), such as the gilgie, marron, or yabby.

(Singapore) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family (Scyllaridae).


lobster

en-adj

lobster (comparative more lobster, superlative most lobster)

more lobster (comparative)
most lobster (superlative)

From Middle English loppestere, lopster, from Old English loppestre, lopustre, lopystre, of uncertain origin. Some believe it to be a corruption of Latin lō̆custa (“grasshopper, locust”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre. In Latin, the phrase lō̆custa marīna (literally "sea-grasshopper") signified a type of crustacean (shrimp or lobster).
Alternatively, from Old English lobbe, loppe (“spider”) + the Old English feminine agent suffix -estre, equivalent to lop + -ster.


lobster

en-noun

lobster (countable and uncountable, plural lobsters)

A crustacean of the Nephropidae family, dark green or blue-black in colour turning bright red when cooked, with a hard shell and claws, which is used as a seafood.

Various other crustaceans that resemble true lobsters:

A spiny lobster, also called the rock lobster, a crustacean of the Palinuridae family, pinkish red in colour, with a hard, spiny shell but no claws, which is used as a seafood.

A slipper lobster (a crustacean of the family Scyllaridae).


crab

crab (countable and uncountable, plural crabs)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

Although crabs themselves are an easily treated inconvenience, the patient and his partner(s) clearly run major STD risks.

Pthirus pubis
Pthirus pubis#Translingual

(in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).


crab

en-verb

crab (third-person singular simple present crabs, present participle crabbing, simple past and past participle crabbed)

crabs (present singular third-person)
crabbing (participle present)
crabbed (participle past)
crabbed (past)

Time slowed down then, became liquid in the aftermath of his grotesque, unfolding limbs; he crabbed his way down the faded line, rocking back and forth in braces he would use all his life.

2011, Robert Vivian, The Least Cricket of Evening, page 108:

Foot by foot, he crabbed his way down another ninety feet of rock chimney until he stood on solid ground again, still very much alive.

To move in a manner that involves keeping low and clinging to surfaces.


crab

From Middle English crabbe (“wild apple”), of Germanic origin, plausibly from North Germanic, cognate with Swedish dialect skrabba (“sour apple, apple cart”).

The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.


rock lobster

It wasn’t a rock, it was a rock lobster


Moreton Bay bug

en-noun

Moreton Bay bug (plural Moreton Bay bugs)

Named after Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia (by way of distinguishing it from the distantly-related Balmain bug (Ibacus peronii), but also found in many parts of the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean.

We settled on cumin-spiced lamb buns, Moreton Bay bug crystal dumplings and the char siu Ōra King salmon fillet.

2021 February 18, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 37, column 1:

(Australia) The species Thenus orientalis of the slipper lobster family; a common seafood item.


royal red prawn

royal red prawn (plural royal red prawns)

A penaeid prawn, Haliporoides sibogae, found in Australian waters.


penaeid

Some 63.1 percent of brackishwater production consists of penaeid shrimps.

2006, State of World Aquaculture 2006, page 10:

Any prawn of the family Penaeidae, many of which have economic importance.


tiger prawn

It has stripes reminiscent of those of a tiger.

Penaeus monodon
Penaeus monodon#Translingual

A large marine crustacean (Penaeus monodon), widely reared for food


furry lobster

Any of several lobsters, of the genus Palinurellus, whose bodies are covered in short hairs.


spiny lobster

a crustacean superficially resembling a true lobster, belonging to the family Palinuridae.


slipper lobster

slipper lobster (plural slipper lobsters)

Any achelate (clawless) decapod crustacean of the family Scyllaridae.


decapod

Borrowed from French décapode, see deca- + -pod.

(zoology) Any crustacean, of the order Decapoda, such as crabs or lobsters.


macruran

(zoology, obsolete) Any of many decapod crustaceans, such as the lobster and shrimp, that were once included in the subdivision Macrura


scyllarian

/sɪˈlɛəɹiən/

(obsolete, zoology) Any of the family Scyllaridae of crustaceans with depressed body and broad, flat antennae; a slipper lobster


glass-crab

A mollusk of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, during its larval state (phyllosoma) which is remarkable for its thinness and transparency. It was formerly thought to be a separate organism in the family Phyllosoma


scyllarid

(zoology) Any slipper lobster in the family Scyllaridae.


palinurid

(zoology) Any lobster-like crustacean in the family Palinuridae


axiid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Axiidae.


callianassid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Callianassidae.


coleiid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Coleiidae.


erymid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Erymidae.


eryonid

(zoology) Any extinct crustacean in the family Eryonidae.


glypheid

(zoology) Any lobsterlike crustacean in the family Glypheidae.


luciferid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Luciferidae.


mecochirid

(zoology) Any extinct lobsterlike crustacean in the family Mecochiridae.


polychelid

(zoology) Any crustacean in the family Polychelidae.


sergestid

(zoology) Any member of the family Sergestidae of decapods.


sicyoniid

(zoology) Any prawn in the family Sicyoniidae.


stenopodid

(zoology) Any shrimp in the family Stenopodidae.


synaxid

(zoology) Any furry lobster in the family Synaxidae, a synonym for the Palinuridae.


thalassinid

(zoology) Any mud lobster in the family Thalassina.


mudprawn

Upogebia africana, a shrimp endemic to South Africa.


sandprawn

Kraussillichirus kraussi, a kind of shrimp.


dendrobranchiate

(zoology) Any member of the Dendrobranchiata.


ghost shrimp

ghost shrimp (plural ghost shrimps or ghost shrimp)

ghost shrimps (plural)
ghost shrimp (plural)

Any of various aquatic crustaceans of the infraorder Thalassinidea, the genus Palaemonetes, or the family Caprellidae.


ghost nipper

(Australia) A marine yabby; a species of marine ghost shrimp, Trypaea australiensis, widely harvested by recreational anglers as bait.


penaeidean

Any marine crustacean of the family Penaeidae


thalassinidean

A decapod crustacean of the former infraorder Thalassinidea


eryonoid

Any extinct decapod crustacean of the family Eryonidae


sergestoid

Any prawn of the superfamily Sergestoidea


mud lobster

Any of a number of decapod crustaceans in the infraorders Axiidea and Gebiidea (true lobsters are in the related infraorder Astacidea)


solenocerid

Any marine decapod of the family Solenoceridae


stenopodidean

Any decapod crustacean of the infraorder Stenopodidea (boxer shrimp)


Balmain bug

Ibacus peronii, a species of slipper lobster.


fan lobster

Any slipper lobster of the subfamily Ibacinae, especially genera Evibacus or Ibacus.


yabby pump

→ Japanese: ヤビーポンプ

In eastern Australia, Callianassa can be obtained in quantities with relative ease by using a local invention (the "yabby pump") which will be described. [...] The sale of yabby pumps and live yabbies for bait is an important aspect of amateur angling in southern Queensland and northern New South Wales.

1961, T. S. Hailstone, W. Stephenson, “The Biology of Callianassa (Trypaea) australiensis Dana 1852 (Crustacea, Thalassinidea)”, in University of Queensland Papers: Department of Zoology, volume I, number 12, pages 260–261:

The specimens were collected with a yabby pump in Carenero lagoon, South coast of La Tortuga Island (10º53’N 65º14’W), Venezuela.

2005, I. Hernández-Ávila, C. Lira, G. Hernández, J. Bolaños, “Upogebia vasquezi Ngoc-Ho, 1989 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Upogebiidae): First Record for Venezuela”, in Boletín del Instituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, volume 44, number 2, page 119:

Penny placed the yabby pump on top of a hole in the sandflat and pulled back on the handle, sucking up mud and life.

2007, J. Woodford, chapter 12, in Whitecap, page 132:

The gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus were collected from burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide by digging and using a yabby pump from April 2007 to September 2008 at Susaki Bay, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.

2014, Henmi Y., Iwata Y., Itani G., “ヒモハゼとクボハゼによる干潮時のヨコヤアナジャコの巣穴利用 [Associations of the gobies Eutaeniichthys gilli and Gymnogobius scrobiculatus with burrows of the mud shrimp Upogebia yokoyai at low tide]”, in 日本ベントス学会誌 [Japanese Journal of Benthology], volume 69, page 69:

(Australia, biology) A large hand-operated syringe-like suction pump, made of metal tubing with a rubber plunger, used to harvest ghost shrimp (prototypically the marine yabby) and other burrowing crustaceans from intertidal environments.


porcelain crab

Any member of the family Porcellanidae of decapod crustaceans, superficially resembling true crabs.


Japanese spiny lobster

Japanese spiny lobster (plural Japanese spiny lobsters)

From Japanese + spiny lobster (“Palinuridae sp.”). Likely a partial calque of translingual Panulirus japonicus.

pclq

Panulirus japonicus, a species of spiny lobster sometimes used in Japanese cuisine.