trout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
Inflected forms:
form: trout
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: trouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
“This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”
Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.
It is not a crime to enjoy some bacon or a trout or what have you.
gloss: An objectionable elderly woman.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
derogatory
uncountable
examples: Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
But French observers were perplexed not just by the Benny Hill-style frenzy, but by the ensuing British tabloid handwringing about how unfair it was that the UK's women ministers were such a load of ugly trouts compared to Sarkozy's sexy French ladies.
gloss: To fish for trout.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder?
We found not more than three birds in any one place, and many times only one old bird, and this where we knew they had bred, for our pointer Rex found them while we were trouting.
He didn’t want to go out on the water. I wouldn’t say he was afraid of it, because every time he was home he was always out in the boat trouting.
gloss: To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: antitrout
Beardslee trout
Biwa trout
brook trout
brown trout
bull trout
coral trout
cutthroat trout
cypress trout
Dolly Varden trout
Dublin trout
fur-bearing trout
Gila trout
Kamloops rainbow trout
Kamloops trout
lake trout
mackinaw trout
Quebec red trout
rainbow trout
salmon and trout
salmon trout
sea trout
Sevan trout
silver trout
speckled trout
Sunapee trout
Troutbeck
trout cod
trouter
troutful
Trout Lake
troutless
troutlet
troutlike
trout lily
troutling
trout-perch
trout pout
Trout River
trout-slap
trout slap
trouty
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