英和和英

名詞

fishling (複数形 fishlings)

1. A small or young fish; fry.
   • 1898, The Yale literary magazine:

     […] said an older woman, bending over her, "hush, little fishling! Ichuk, my son, is dead, but we will get thee another man."

   • 2008, Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy:

     My fingers moved subtly, and now Fiacha was a tiny raven no bigger than a bee, a little speck of darkness that spun out of the fixing charm as easily as a fishling escapes the herring net, […]