squidling
nounEtymology From squid + -ling.
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A small or young squid.
- 'I had this idea 'Why, when you use the word "idea" do I suddenly feel like a squidling in a piranha pool?'2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 313:
- Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away.2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows:
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- [...] I gingerly added a glob of crystalline jelly, and watched in awe as it slowly dissolved, quivering and squirming in the acid bath like a translucent squidling.2010, Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag: