different between sharkling vs sharpling
sharkling
English
Etymology
From shark +? -ling.
Noun
sharkling (plural sharklings)
- A small, young, or immature shark.
- 1888, William Senior, Near and far: an angler's sketches of home sport and colonial life - Page 258:
- A sharkling is more easily disposed of, for his teeth will set him free, though the hook be attached to the stoutest gimp, and as he fights madly he is pretty certain in a few moments to have severed the gut.
- 1904, Ellery Sedgwick, Leslie's Monthly Magazine - Volume 58 - Page 604:
- Now for many days she has no rest at all With the solicitude of the mother hen for her chicks she watches over that group of sharklings, shepherded by the pilot whom they are rapidly outgrowing, sheltered in her bosom and fed, yes fed, though often the mother feels as if vultures were tearing at her liver.
- 1970, Boys' Life - Feb 1970 - Page 64:
- Gary muttered, for he had seen what trailed the big gray shark almost like a part of her — six sharklings that followed her every movement with perfect precision.
- 1997, Ron Dakron, Hammers:
- Least I'm not as schizo as hybrid Tina was— that sharkling did one rough mutation.
- 1888, William Senior, Near and far: an angler's sketches of home sport and colonial life - Page 258:
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sharpling
English
Etymology
From sharp +? -ling. Compare German Schärfling (“stickleback”).
Noun
sharpling (plural sharplings)
- (Britain, dialect) A stickleback.
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