Home › Words › F › flounderlingflounderlingflounderling means A small or young flounder.EtymologyFrom flounder + -ling.nounA small or young floundere.g.“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.” — 1918, Richard Darwin Ware, Rediscoveries, page 102:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.flounderlike 75% match — Resembling a flounder. vs flounderling →flounderish 70% match — that flounders; that moves with awkward struggles vs flounderling →frogling 68% match — a young or little frog vs flounderling →troutling 65% match — A young trout. vs flounderling →floundering 65% match — The act of one who flounders; a clumsy struggle. vs flounderling →flatty 64% match — A flatfish. vs flounderling →fingerling 63% match — A juvenile fish that has developed scales and working fins. vs flounderling →flipperling 62% match — A young seal. vs flounderling →