Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A young or small fish, especially a young salmon or trout.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A finger of a glove.
- n. Some small thing no bigger than a finger; specifically, a very small salmon or a small trout.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A young salmon. See parr.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a young or small fish
Examples
“The Conrad Brothers caught a fish that was living in a natural system for over 9 years, probably released as a fingerling.”
New (Pending) All-Tackle World Record Rainbow Trout Caught in Saskatchewan's Diefenbaker Lake
“Secondis move on to slow roasted rosemary-honey beef ribs w/chanterelles, a fava & fingerling-abetted Lobster Pot (rosemary butter, porcinis), and a "steak" of roasted Berkshire pork shoulder, which certainly isn't something to get lean on.”
The Huffington Post: Thrillist: Ciano: Allstar Italian in the Flatiron
“This stand still had more summery stuff: peppers, fairy-tale eggplant, fingerling potatoes, summer squash:”
“Snow Bear has dried cranberry beans, collards, Rose Finn Apple (fingerling variety) potatoes, red lettuce and Napa cabbage.”
“Snow Bear has fennel, German butterball, french fingerling potatoes, dried beans (four varieties), celery and celeriac.”
“Make him kielbasa, sour kraut and fingerling potatoes.”
“On the menu: The Wolfgang Puck menu featured barbecue pork shank, paella, tortelloni with summer truffles, fingerling potatoes, asparagus, heirloom tomatoes with mozzarella, garlic shrimp, scallops and filet mignon.”
“Mashed fingerling potatoes with macaroni and cheese is a great start as long as you garnish with bacon.”
The Huffington Post: Anna Brones: Formulating the Foolproof Foodie Menu
“Ft Bragg Petrale Sole with Olympic Peninsula chanterelles, thyme and fingerling potatoes, $26 The rest of the menu leans heavily on under-$30 fresh-fish offerings, such as the $26 petrale sole with fingerling potatoes.”
“Chef Michelle fills up baked fingerling potato skins with a mashed potato/roquefort filling.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘fingerling’.
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I didn't know there was a word for that!
interdigitate, aspheric, benthos, reptation, pastiche, pandiculate, agelast, obdormition, dysania, armscye, phosphene, etiolation and 56 more...
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(LING)uistics
Words ending in 'ling'
youngling, fledgling, quisling, ridgeling, stripling, kitling, scatterling, earthling, foundling, hatchling, sapling, seedling and 7 more...
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Trout
trout, golden trout, rainbow trout, Trout Fishing in ..., Kilgore Trout, Trout Quintet, Trout Mask Replica, steelhead, cutthroat trout, lake trout, trout cod, Mackinaw trout and 57 more...
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Salmon
All salmon all the time!
Also see asativium's excellent Salmon I am list.salmon, Salmon, Salmon of Knowledge, the Salmon of Lly..., chinook salmon, kipper, spent fish, foul fish, kelts, kelt, shedder, baggit and 68 more...
sionnach Quit molesting the baby potatoes!
What's that? Oh, sorry, I thought you wrote "fingering". Aug 10, 2009
crysb I think of the small fingerling potatoes. Aug 9, 2009