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finnac

finnac is the alternative spelling of finnock.

Meaning of finnock

Noun

finnock (plural finnocks)

  1. (Scotland) A young sea trout, in the year after they return to fresh water after their smolt migration stage.
    • Previous to their descent, I caught in all, not far from the tideway, about half-a-dozen finnocks, on two or three different occasions.1866, Thomas Tod Stoddart, An Angler's Rambles and Angling Songs, page 46
    Synonyms:
    herling, school peal, school peel, harvester

Forms of finnac

pluralfinnacs

Questions about finnac

What is finnac the alternative spelling of?
Finnac is the alternative spelling of finnock.

Words near finnac in the dictionary

  1. Finn raccoon
  2. Finn raccoons
  3. Finn saw
  4. Finn saws
  5. finna
  6. finnac
  7. finnack
  8. finnacks
  9. finnacs
  10. finnage
  11. finnages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: finnac (page history and authors); finnock (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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