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noun

Flounder n.

1.

(Zool.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, of many species. Note: The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder (P. glabra); the rough or winter flounder (P. Americanus); the summer flounder, or plaice (Paralichthys dentatus), Atlantic coast; and the starry flounder (Pleuronectes stellatus).

2.

(Bootmaking) A tool used in crimping boot fronts.

Flounder n. The act of floundering.

verb

Flounder v. i. (past & past part. floundered; pres. part. floundering) To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. "They have floundered on from blunder to blunder."

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Etymology of 'Flounder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Flounder" Quotes from Famous Books

... my mother," said Priscilla gently; and this was strictly true, for the deceased Grand Duchess had also been Priscilla. Then a feeling came over her that she was getting into those depths where persons with secrets begin to flounder as a preliminary to letting them out, and seized with panic she got up ...

— The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight • Elizabeth von Arnim

... a bucket of Champagne in an hour's time, if thou wilt only stay not now to bend thy neck down to the clear gleaming water; flounder through the ford, and just twenty yards up the bank by the cherry-tree, we shall catch sight of the house, ...

— The Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn • Henry Kingsley

... is arranged now," he assured his hostess. But this did not satisfy Miss Warren, who, with apparent innocence, questioned the two men until Papa La Branche began to bog and flounder in his explanations. Fortunately for the men, she was diverted for the moment by discovering that the table was set ...

— The Net • Rex Beach

... I rode rapidly over the savannahs, where the swallows were skimming over the top of the long grass to frighten up the insects which rested there. After another flounder across the San Jose plains, I reached San Ubaldo without incident, excepting a tumble with my mule in the mud. Much of the land between Pital and the lake is well fitted for the cultivation of maize, sugar, and plantains, ...

— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt

... third reason that influenced the young navigators in deciding to take the longer course across the Atlantic. This concerned the fogs such as can always be met with off the Newfoundland Banks, and which are often so dense that vessels flounder through them for ...

— Air Service Boys Over the Atlantic • Charles Amory Beach

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