Definitions
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- noun A small or young
fish ;fry .
Etymologies
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From fish + -ling.
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Examples
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To these and to many another delectable fishling, would I introduce the poor fellow; and to him and his fellows I fain would offer a dozen apiece of Smith Island oysters on the half shell.
Europe Revised 1910
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"Ah, my golden fishling, why are you not here now?
Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen Alexander Chodzko 1847
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