Both Uses of
flounder
in
Great Expectations
- The Finches spent their money foolishly (the Hotel we dined at was in Covent Garden), and the first Finch I saw when I had the honor of joining the Grove was Bentley Drummle, at that time floundering about town in a cab of his own, and doing a great deal of damage to the posts at the street corners.†
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- Lying on the flat of his back like a drifting old dead flounder, here's your old Bill Barley, bless your eyes.†
Chpt 46
Definitions:
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(1)
(flounder as in: she floundered) to have difficulty -- such as to not know what to do or to move awkwardly on unsure footing
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Flounder is also a kind of fish.