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单词 flounders
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flounder1 /flownˈdər/

intransitive verb
  1. To struggle with violent and awkward movements
  2. To stumble helplessly in thinking or speaking
noun

An act of floundering

ORIGIN: Prob an onomatopoeic blending of the sound and sense of earlier words like founder and blunder

flounder2 /flownˈdər/

noun

A name given to a number of species of flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae, in Europe Platichthys flesus, in the USA certain species of Pseudopleuronectes, Limanda, etc

ORIGIN: Anglo-Fr floundre, OFr flondre, most prob of Scand origin; cf ON flythra; Swed flundra
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