whitling

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

white +‎ -ling

Noun[edit]

whitling (plural whitlings)

  1. (UK, dialect) A young full trout during its second season.
    • 1803, Henry Mackenzie, Prize Essays and Transactions of the Highland Society of Scotland‎[1], page 377:
      The whitling and the finner, or finnoc, have been supposed by many to be young salmon.
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