shrimp butter

5.4

Butter mixed with small pieces of shrimp and used as a spread or in cooking

noun
/ʃrɪmp ˈbʌtər/

: mantequilla de camarones

The chef prepared a delicate sauce using homemade shrimp butter.

Examples

You can elevate your seafood dishes by adding a dollop of shrimp butter.
Have you ever tried shrimp butter with crackers?
He spread some shrimp butter on warm toast as an appetizer.
I love to spread shrimp butter on my toast.
He spread some shrimp butter on warm toast as an appetizer.
The chef prepared a delicate sauce using homemade shrimp butter.
You can elevate your seafood dishes by adding a dollop of shrimp butter.

Surface Forms

shrimp butter singular

shrimp butters plural

Morphology

shrimp + butter

The noun-noun composition 'shrimp butter' is directly interpretable as a type of butter that contains or is flavored with shrimp: knowing 'shrimp' and 'butter' gives the necessary components to infer a spread made from or flavored by shrimp. This is a common, productive compounding pattern in English (cf. 'peanut butter', 'garlic butter') and is likely transparent to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Shrimp butter comes from the simple kitchen idea of mixing chopped shrimp into soft butter, or cooking shrimp shells in butter to give it a seafood taste. So, the name means 'butter flavored with shrimp' used as a 'spread' or in cooking.