单词 | flounder |
释义 | flounder 1. v. & n. --vintr.   1. struggle in mud, or as if in mud, or when wading.   2. perform a task badly or without knowledge; be out of one's depth. --n an act of floundering. Derivatives flounderer n. Etymology: imit.: perh. assoc. with founder, blunder 2. n.   1. an edible flat-fish, Pleuronectes flesus, native to European shores.   2. any of various flat-fish native to N. American shores. Etymology: ME f. AF floundre, OF flondre, prob. of Scand. orig. |
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