Hesitate or stumble while searching for a word and people say you do this; yet out in the ocean sands, I swim flat as a plate as an edible fish. What am I?
Flounder
Plays on the verb 'flounder' (to struggle clumsily or hesitate) and the noun 'flounder' (the flat ocean fish).
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