squidling

English

Etymology

From squid +‎ -ling.

Noun

squidling (plural squidlings)

1. A small or young squid.
   • 2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 313:

     'I had this idea 'Why, when you use the word "idea" do I suddenly feel like a squidling in a piranha pool?'

   • 2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows:

     Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away.

   • 2010, Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag:

     [...] I gingerly added a glob of crystalline jelly, and watched in awe as it slowly dissolved, quivering and squirming in the acid bath like a translucent squidling.