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flounderling

noun

Etymology

From flounder + -ling.

  1. derived from *flunþrijǭ✻
  2. derived from flyðra
  3. derived from flondre
  4. derived from floundre
  5. inherited from flowndre
  6. suffixed as flounderling — “flounder + ling”

Definitions

  1. A small or young flounder

    • On such an one I came All inadvertently, Splashing the shallows Where Atlantic ebb Was making bare The flats, As when one Wading Sets unguarded step Upon a lurking Flounderling.
    • At first flounderlings are thin-bodied but typically fishlike in other respects. Then suddenly striking anatomical changes take place, and the creature's behavior becomes fixed for an essentially two-dimensional way of life.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA