Noun: ling
| Singular | ling |
| Plural | lings; ling |
Sample Sentences
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Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish. [1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like ling
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lenge, of Germanic origin. Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long. See: Middle English Nouns '
lenge', Old Norse Nouns '
langa'.
Verbs referencing "ling"
Danish Nouns
lange, Dutch Nouns
leng.