trout
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trout¹
- /tɹaʊt/
- /tɹʌʊt/ Canada
Rhymes with -aʊt
Where it comes from
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.
noun trout · trouts
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once. Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
- An objectionable elderly woman. Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
verb trouts · trouting · trouted
- To fish for trout. 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?
- To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
Trout²
proper noun
- A surname.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: salmon, steelhead, fish, fishes, bull, plate, prairies, char, fountain, rainbow, arctic, flat, brook, fontaine, wct, brook trout
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noun fish
| Español | trucha |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 송어 song'eo |
| 日本語 | 鱒 masu, マス masu |
| 中文 | 尊魚 /尊鱼 zūnyú, 鱒魚 /鳟鱼 zūnyú |
| हिन्दी | सामन sāman |
| Português | truta |
| Français | truite |
| Deutsch | Forelle |
| Italiano | trota |
| Ελληνικά | πέστροφα péstrofa |
| Română | păstrăv |
| Русский | форе́ль forɛ́lʹ |
| Tiếng Việt | cá hồi |
| العربية | تَرُوتَة tarūta, أُطْرُوط ʔuṭrūṭ |
verb Internet. To figuratively slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
| Español | truchear |
|---|
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title = {trout},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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