Cut almost plausibly fluent figure in the jungle (6)
I believe the answer is:
mowgli
'figure in the jungle' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't judge whether it can be defined by this definition.
'cut almost plausibly fluent' is the wordplay.
'cut' becomes 'mow' (as in mowing a lawn).
'almost' means to remove the last letter (almost the whole word is kept).
'plausibly fluent' becomes 'glib' (I've seen this before).
'glib' with its final letter taken away is 'gli'.
'mow'+'gli'='MOWGLI'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for mowgli that I've seen before include "Kipling character" , "Jungle Book boy (Kipling)" , "Jungle Book 'man-cub'" , "boy reared by wolves" , "The Jungle Book hero" .)