English Online Dictionary. What means trout? What does trout mean?
English
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, “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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɹaʊt/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /tɹʌʊt/
- Rhymes: -aʊt
Noun
trout (countable and uncountable, plural trout or trouts)
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- (British, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.
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Verb
trout (third-person singular simple present trouts, present participle trouting, simple past and past participle trouted)
- (intransitive) To fish for trout.
- (transitive, Internet chat) To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
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Anagrams
- Routt, Tutor, tutor