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. (Zoöl.) A young salmon. See parr.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a young or small fish
Etymologies
- From finger + -ling. (Wiktionary)
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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fish list
lots and lots of fish, a piscatorial
wetdreamablet, agnathan, ahi, ahuru, ahuruhuru, albacore, albicore, alec, alewife, allice, allis, amberjack and 840 more...
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finger
sentences showing how finger is used
eg
finger-alphabet
finger-bar
finger-biscuit
finger-board
finger-bowl
finger-breadth
finger-brush ...To point at with ..., She was never wea..., The cardinals hav..., Thy heart is fing..., To cheat (a perso..., Frank Lee..had ‘f..., To play upon (an ..., fore-finger, index-finger, middle finger, fool's finger, ring finger and 93 more...
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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 62 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 61 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 70 more...
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♥
ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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Alaska
Names of places, animals, plants, people, etc. found in and around Alaska.
grizzly, coho, roe, koyukon, chinook, sockeye, king salmon, chum, dog salmon, kipper, kelt, baggit and 221 more...
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How do you like Kipling?
Words which fit the joke format: "How do you like X-in(g)? I don't know, I've never X-ed".
kipling, duckling, fingerling, groundling, chickling, chitterling, changeling, gosling, yearling, hireling, inkling, quisling and 98 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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words I like for one reason or another
nostalgia, corgi, ambiguous, anachronistic, bamboozled, eloquent, emporium, sacrosanct, nascent, obfuscate, miscellaneous, kaleidoscopic and 113 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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I'm Giving You the Finger
The finger list, that is!
fingertip, fingerprint, fingernail, finger-pointing, fingerling, fingerboard, fingerpost, fingerless, fingerpick, fingerstyle, finger-paint, finger-roll and 69 more...
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fun to say
words simply fun to say and hear
avariciousness, lackadaisically, succinctly, languish, solicitousness, reverie, eviscerated, prestidigitation, squall, squanderer, contemporaneously, topographical and 54 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for fingerling.
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