Fingerling

//ˈfɪŋɡəlɪŋ// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins.
  2. 2
    a young or small fish wordnet
  3. 3
    A type of small potato grown primarily in North America.
  4. 4
    An infant weasel, stoat, ferret; esp. weasels.
  5. 5
    Any finger-sized version of something typically larger. broadly

    "Oh, but those little crab-lingered fingerlings really wanted to get in! Now some were trying to claw up through an old knothole whose bole had aged and didn’t sit true in the plank. […] But here came the dwarf opening her door, and the spiderlets melted away."

Etymology

From Middle English fyngyrlynge, equivalent to finger + -ling, from having the size of a human finger.

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