flounder
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Etymology: From Middle English flowndre, from Anglo-Norman floundre, from Old Northern French flondre, from Old Norse flyðra, from Proto-Germanic *flunþrijǭ. Cognate with Danish flynder, German Flunder, Swedish flundra.
Compound parts: flounce
founder
Inflected forms:
form: flounder
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flounders
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: flounders
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: floundering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: floundered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: floundered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder (Platichthys flesus).
pos: noun
examples: Water Souchy.
Eels, whitings, soles, flounders, and mackerel are generally used. Stew it in clear fish stock, until done, eight minutes will be enough; add cayenne, catsup, an anchovy, and any other flavouring ingredient; let it boil up, skim, and serve hot altogether in a tureen.
gloss: Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
examples: Blackfishing from the beach. I've done my research. Hundreds of shipwrecks line the Jersey coast, and many of them are close enough to reach with a long cast on a dead-low tide. These wrecks hold tautog, porgies, sea bass, flounder.
gloss: A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
pos: noun
gloss: To act clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.
These epics nearly always had runaway trains, nincompoops floundering with the controls and a collapsed bridge just ahead!
He is assessing directions, but he is not lost, not floundering.
an assassin who misses his aim and flounders into penitence much as that discomfortable drama misses its point and stumbles into vacuity
[…] I'm floundering at sloppy deliberation in the choice of every new word, and thus damned up in my soul is left to rot. The limit of my foremind to tap and drain onto paper any flow from my residue of self-saturated thoughts is usually half a page at any one sitting.
gloss: To flop around as a fish out of water.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Robert yanked Connie's leg vigorously, causing her to flounder and eventually fall.
gloss: To be in serious difficulty.
pos: verb
examples: Meanwhile bus and tram competition was causing the Central London Railway to flounder after its early success, and as for the City & South London ... that had always floundered.
Synonyms: faulter
Related words: flail
Derived words: armless flounder
arrowtooth flounder
Baltic flounder
barfin flounder
blackback flounder
blackfin flounder
black flounder
California flounder
craig flounder
diamond flounder
eel-back flounder
European flounder
flounder house
flounderlike
flounderling
flowery flounder
fourspot flounder
four-spotted flounder
Georges Bank flounder
gray flounder
grey flouder
great flounder
greenback flounder
Gulf flounder
left-eyed flounder
olive flounder
peacock flounder
peppered flounder
pole flounder
righteye flounder
sand flounder
southern flounder
starry flounder
summer flounder
water flounder
windowpane flounder
winter flounder
witch flounder
yellowtail flounder
flounderer
flounderingly
flounderish
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