samlet
A young salmon.
Noun
- A young salmon.
- Demon popped into his mouth a last morsel of black bread with elastic samlet, gulped down a last pony of vodka and took his place at the table with Marina facing him across its oblong length. - 1969, Vladimir Nabokov,...
Origin
Either a contraction of salmon + -let or a modification of earlier salmonet either on that basis or with dissimilation of /mn/ (as in chimley, a common dialectal form of chimney).