v. nonce-wd. trans. To make ‘as flat as a flounder.’

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1819.  Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 119. Warburton could never have wooed by kisses and won, or be would not have flounder-flatted so just and humorous, nor less pleasing than humorous, an image into so profound a nihility.

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