Fishling

Origin

From fish + -ling.

Full definition of fishling

Noun

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, ...