squidling

plural squidlings

1. A small or young squid.

   'I had this idea 'Why, when you use the word "idea" do I suddenly feel like a squidling in a piranha pool?'

   2005, Celeste Walters, Deception, page 313

   2 more examples

   Ryan blinked and looked at the squidling. It flew up using its tentacles and drifted down onto Ryan's snout. It waved around a tentacle and formed a bubble that drifted away.

   2010, A. J. Traxler, Echoes of the Shadows

   [...] I gingerly added a glob of crystalline jelly, and watched in awe as it slowly dissolved, quivering and squirming in the acid bath like a translucent squidling.

   2010, Alan Bradley, The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag