fishling
nounEtymology From fish + -ling.
1
A small or young fish; fry.
- […] 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:
- 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, […]2008, Juliet Marillier, Child of the Prophecy: