Flounderling

noun

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Noun
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From flounder + -ling.

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