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Trout

//tɹaʊt// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once. countable, uncountable

    "Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry."

  2. 2
    any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons wordnet
  3. 3
    An objectionable elderly woman. British, countable, derogatory, uncountable

    "Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!"

  4. 4
    flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To fish for trout. intransitive

    "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?"

  2. 2
    To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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, “I 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.

Etymology 2

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, “I 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.

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