different between parr vs brandling

English

Etymology

Compare Scottish Gaelic bradan (“salmon”).For the salmon life stage, the word originates from the old english parren (to enclose), refering to the spots running along the side of the fish, resembling the bars of a fence .

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??(?)/
• Homophones: par, Parr, pa (non-rhotic accents)

Noun

parr (countable and uncountable, plural parrs or parr)

1. Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.
2. A young leveret.

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Anagrams

• PRRA

English

Etymology

brand +? -ling

Noun

brandling (countable and uncountable, plural brandlings)

1. The young or parr of the salmon, so named from its markings being, as it were, branded.
2. A small, red worm used for bait in freshwater fishing.
   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming Up for Air, part 2, chapter 4

     And you also find another kind of worm called a brandling, which is striped and smells like an earwig, and which is very good bait for perch.

References

• Brandling in the 1921 edition of Collier's Encyclopedia.