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ponnistella, kompuroida
kampela
horjua, räpiköidä
A European species of flatfish having dull brown colouring with reddish-brown blotches; fluke, European flounder, (taxlink).
puhekieltä Any of various flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae or Bothidae.
A bootmaker's tool for crimping boot fronts.
puhekieltä To flop around as a fish out of water.
puhekieltä To make clumsy attempts to move or regain one's balance.
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Robert yanked Connies leg vigorously, causing her to flounder and eventually fall.''
puhekieltä To act clumsy clumsily or confused; to struggle or be flustered.
Sir W. Hamilton
- They have floundered on from blunder to blunder.
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He gave a good speech, but floundered when audience members asked questions he could not answer well.
1996, w:Janette Turner Hospital|Janette Turner Hospital, w:Oyster (novel)|Oyster, Virago Press, paperback edition, page 136
- He is assessing directions, but he is not lost, not floundering.
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