finnockEtymologyA possible anglicisation of Scottish Gaelic fionnag (“young salmon”). Compare fionnag (“whiting”), a calque of English whiting, from fionn (“white”).nounA young sea trout, in the year after they return to fresh water after their smolt migration stage.“Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions.”