Home › Words › F › fishlingfishlingfishling means A small or young fish; fry.EtymologyFrom fish + -ling.nounA small or young fish; fry.e.g.“[…] said an older woman, bending over her, "hush, little fishling! Ichuk, my son, is dead, but we will get thee another man."” — 1898, The Yale literary magazine:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).