English Explanatory Dictionary

trout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
  2. An objectionable elderly woman.
verb
  1. To fish for trout.
  2. To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/tɹaʊt/ /tɹʌʊt/ en-us-trout.ogg

Word forms

trout trouts trouting trouted

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.

Derived words

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 Trout Lake trout lily trout-perch trout pout Trout River trout-slap trout slap
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