troutn.¹

Brit.

/traʊt/, U.S.

/traʊt/

Forms: Old English–Middle English truht, Middle English troit, Middle English trouȝt(e, trouhte, troȝte, Middle English trote, Middle English–1500s trute, trowte, Middle English–1600s troute, Middle English trowȝt(e, trowyt, troughte, trouth(e, troyte, ( tryotht), 1500s–1600s trowt, trought, (1600s trowet, troot), 1500s– trout.

Etymology: Old English truht, < late Latin tructus, tructa, truta, trutta, etc. = Greek τρώκτης gnawer, also the name of a sea-fish, < τρώγειν to gnaw; the forms troit, troute, etc. correspond to Old French troite, troute, etc., French truite (13th cent.).

a. A well-known freshwater fish of the genus Salmo, esp. S. fario, the common trout, inhabiting most rivers and lakes of the temperate or colder parts of the northern hemisphere; it is distinguished by numerous spots of red and black on its sides and head, and is greatly valued as a sporting fish and on account of its edible quality. See also 3. †sound as a trout: see as sound as a (also†any) roach at roach n.¹ Phrases. Cf. as whole as a trout at whole adj., n., and adv. Phrases 2. Obsolete.grey trout: see first element.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout

troutc1050

torrentillec1460

torrentinea1475

troutlinga1739

troutlet1829

trouty1848

silver trout1873

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo fario (common trout)

troutc1050

brown trout1661

yellow trout1794

brook trout1869

Cornish brown trout1883

brownie1914

the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from injury

unwoundedOE

wholeOE

unwemmedc1175

hailc1275

wemlessc1330

sound as a trouta1450

unmaimeda1470

unmaggled1508

unmenyied?a1513

in (also with) a whole skin1534

woundless1579

unmartyred1580

wound-free1609

invulnered1613

fist-free1615

invulneratea1680

unmangled1885

c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 180/37 Tructa, truht.

a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 319/15 Tructa, truht.

1290 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 354 Pro uno paner. gurnardi..pro iiij troites.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 423 Perche and trouȝtis.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11884 Bi þat þou þar-of cum vte þou sal be hale sum ani trute [Fairf. troute].

a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 22 For þe Trowte. The trowyt ys a deyntet fyche and a fre bytyng.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 50 Trowȝtes..Wele soþun and hakked.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 577 Gynnys, to tak geddis & salmonys Trowtis elys and als menovnys.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxiii. 325 Pastyes of samonde, troutes, and elys, wraped in towels.

a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii I am forthwith as hole as a troute.

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet 3 I..will giue them line enough like a trowte.

1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. F3 Leaue off your tickling of young heires like trouts.

1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 389 When we would speak of one who is sound indeed, we say that he is as sound as a Trout.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 200 River-Fish, as Trouts..will alter their figure, some for the better and some for the worse, being put into Ponds.

1727 J. Thomson Summer 26 They, sportive, wheel; or, sailing down the Stream, Are snatch'd, immediate, by the springing Trout.

1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 371 The crimson-spotted Trout, the River's Pride, And Beauty of the Stream.

1790 W. Scott Let. 3 Sept. (1932) I. 13 Two miles from an excellent water for trouts.

1839 Douglas in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 185 The trouts were scarcely covered in the small pools.

1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 6 The streams..where the trout displays his speckled side as he leaps from pool to pool.

1885 Good Words 26 255/2 He may guddle trouts in a stream.

b. collective singular (in sporting use taking the place of the plural).

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trout1602

1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 105^v The pond will moreouer keepe Shote, Peale, Trought, and Sammon, in seasonable plight, but not in their wonted reddish graine.

1609 in Craven Gloss. (1828) 33 pearch and troot from Mawater for my Ld. Judge.

1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 41 The trout..there have been over praised.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 12 She was exceedingly fond of trout.

1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 24 Pike and trout are to be had in the lochs.

2. Used as a name of various fish (chiefly Salmonidæ) resembling the trout in appearance or habits. Now local.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague)

bass1530

trout1604

weakfish1686

sea bass1765

corvina1787

salmon1798

sheep's head1836

squeteague1838

grey trout1856

white trout1861

roncador1867

shad-trout1884

squit1884

bastard trout1888

wheat-fish1888

yellowfin1888

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Micropterus (black bass)

trout1604

black perch1685

Welshman1709

Oswego bass1758

river bass1820

Oswego1857

ringeye1877

slough bass1877

small-mouthed bass1877

smallmouth1880

smallmouth bass1880

smallmouth black bass1880

small-mouthed black bass1881

trout-perch1883

bronze-backer1888

smallie1952

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salmo salvelinus (char)

trout1604

case1658

char1662

red-bellied trout1787

red-spotted trout1884

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > in third year

mortc1490

trout1604

yellowbelly1775

salmon mort1893

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xv. 164 I have not seene any Besugues there, nor trowts.

1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 313 Of salars caught in the Ribble, those of the first year are called smolts; those of the second year, sprods; those of the third, trouts.

1884 Mather in Cent. Mag. Apr. 908/1 The name of ‘trout’ is also applied..to a salt-water fish called ‘squeteague’.

1891 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 456 Char, known to the natives [of Colorado] by the name of trout.

1897 Outing 30 217/2 In the South, he [the black bass] is commonly called ‘trout’.

3. With defining prefix, as the name of various species of the genus Salmo (or of the allied genus Salvelinus), and occasionally of other genera. bastard trout n. U.S. a squeteague or weak-fish, Cynoscion nothus. brook trout n. Salmo fario; in U.S., S. fontinalis, or S. irideus, the rainbow trout. brown trout n. S. fario. Dolly Varden trout n. U.S. Salvelinus Malma. lake trout n. S. ferox (the great lake trout); in U.S., (a) S. confinis (the North American lake trout), inhabiting the deepest waters of the great lakes; (b) = Mackinaw trout n. Mackinaw trout n. or Namaycush trout n. S. Namaycush, of Lake Huron and Lake Superior. rainbow trout n. S. irideus, a Californian species, now introduced in British trout-streams. red-bellied trout n. the char, S. salvelinus; also S. or Fario erythrogaster, of the lakes of New York State and Pennsylvania. red-spotted trout n. S. fontinalis or S. salvelinus. rock trout n. Chirus constellatus (rock n.¹ Compounds 2d).† skegger trout n. Obsolete = skegger n. speckled trout n. S. fontinalis. white trout n. (a) a variety of S. fario; (b) the weak-fish ( Cynoscion nothus). yellow trout n. a name used in Scotland for the brown trout. See also bull-trout n., salmon-trout n., sea-trout n.

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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus namaycush (lake trout)

lake trout1661

Oswego bass1758

namaycush1775

siscowet1838

togue1839

touladi1846

lunge1851

Oswego1857

mackinaw trout1961

mackinaw1968

troutc1050

brown trout1661

yellow trout1794

brook trout1869

Cornish brown trout1883

brownie1914

lake trout1661

laker1823

lake trout1661

laker1823

mackinaw trout1838

ferox1876

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salmo salvelinus (char)

trout1604

case1658

char1662

red-bellied trout1787

red-spotted trout1884

the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout > char

red-bellied trout1787

red-spotted trout1884

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague)

bass1530

trout1604

weakfish1686

sea bass1765

corvina1787

salmon1798

sheep's head1836

squeteague1838

grey trout1856

white trout1861

roncador1867

shad-trout1884

squit1884

bastard trout1888

wheat-fish1888

yellowfin1888

finnoc1771

finner1803

silver-white?1834

white trout1861

the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus fontinalis (brook trout)

mud trout1842

brook trout1869

speckled trout1869

speckle-belly1874

rainbow1779

hardhead1792

mountain trout1805

brook trout1869

silver trout1873

rainbow trout1881

steel-head1882

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 228 Both the Salmon and gray trouts are very pleasant, and good for sound persons, but in agues they are not comparable to the Perch.

1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 163 Trutta Lacustris, the Lake-Trout.

1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux Trav. N.-Amer. II. 322 We..were constantly supplied with venison, moor game, the most delicious red and yellow bellied trout [et al.].

1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 345 Fish are not plenty in this river; a few salmon, sea trout, yellow trout, and flounders, are caught in it.

1830 Cabinet Nat. Hist. I. 147 In the outlet..from the lake, none of the lake trout were ever found.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 31 The Grey Trout.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 60 The Great Lake Trout of Loch Awe..was shortly noticed by Pennant..as a native of Ullswater Lake in Cumberland, and of Lough Neagh in Ireland.

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 74 This species has been called a Red-bellied Trout.

1839 T. T. Stoddart Songs & Poems 51 Is the yellow trout at feed?

1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon,..that is to say, harvest cock, sea trout, white trout, sewin, buntling [etc.].

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 322 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV It is..rank folly to allow so great a delicacy as the speckled brook trout (Salmo fontinalis) to become extinct.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 330 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The commission has..bred salmon, trout, lake trout (Salmo toma), and land-locked salmon (S. Gloveri).

1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 115 The Grey Trout (Salmo Cambricus).

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 204 Brook Trout, Lake Trout,..Rainbow Trout, Rangeley Trout.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 468 According to the latest system..the second group [of the old genus Salmo] includes the Chars, or Red-spotted Trout, and the gray-spotted species known as Salmon Trout, or Lake Trout. These are assigned to the genus Salvelinus.

1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 504 The Dolly Varden Trout—Salvelinus Malma,..known in the mountains as ‘Lake Trout’, ‘Bull Trout’, ‘Speckled Trout’, and ‘Red-Spotted Trout’.

1884 St. James's Gaz. 23 Feb. 5/2 Like mice in a house, the little brook-trout are often almost under your feet.

1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 61/1 Mr. Thomson caught one sixteen-pounder, which seized a yellow trout he was playing.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 120 The Silver Squeteague, Cynoscion nothum, called at Charleston the ‘Bastard Trout’. The ‘White Trout’..is caught with hook and line.

4. slang.

†a. Originally in the alliterative phrase true or trusty trout, a confidential friend or servant; so humble trout. Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > confidant

privya1325

secretarya1387

counsel-keeper1600

confident1619

secretara1628

trustee1641

troutc1661

confidante1709

confidant1741

society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > confidential servant or companion

troutc1661

companion1697

dame de compagnie1784

souffre-douleur1845

paid companion1853

c1661 in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 518 I was a trusty trout In all that I went about.

1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 30 They are all very honest Fellows, true Trouts.

1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 5 Your humble Trout, good noble Squire.

b. old trout n. a derogatory term for an old woman; cf. trot n.²

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the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun]

old wifeeOE

old womanOE

trota1375

carlinec1375

cronec1386

vecke1390

monea1393

hagc1400

ribibec1405

aunt?a1425

crate14..

witchc1475

mauda1500

mackabroine1546

grandam?1550

grannam1565

old lady1575

beldam1580

lucky1629

granny1634

patriarchess1639

runta1652

harridan1699

grimalkin1798

mama1810

tante1815

wifie1823

maw1826

old dear1836

tante1845

Mother Bunch1847

douairière1869

dowager1870

veteraness1880

old trout1897

tab1909

bag1924

crow1925

ma1932

Skinny Liz1940

old bag1947

old boot1958

tannie1958

LOL1960

1897 ‘S. Grand’ Beth Bk. xxxix. 395 They said..they were blessed if they'd go near the old trout again.

1914 D. Beatty Let. 16 Feb. in W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. David, Earl Beatty (1951) vi. 127 There were some funny old trouts and some spritely young ones, but no raving beauties.

1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvi. 224 ‘Serve her right, the old trout,’ muttered Flora.

1956 ‘A. Gilbert’ And Death came Too ii. 33 She and her husband always went south to stay with her mother-in-law, an old trout called Lady Dingle.

1972 V. Canning Rainbird Pattern iii. 50 She wasn't such a bad old trout. For all her money and position, life hadn't been all good to her.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations, as trout-angler, trout-angling, trout-brook, trout farm, trout-hole, trout-hook, trout-line, trout-net, trout ova, trout-pond, trout-preserve, trout-rod, trout-spawn, trout-spear, trout-stream, trout-worm; objective and objective genitive, as trout-breeder, trout-catcher, trout-fisher, trout-fishing, trout-pirate, trout-rearing, trout-tickler; also trout-coloured, trout-famous, trout-haunted adjs.; trout-like adj.

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1538 T. Elyot Dict. Fuscina..a troute speare, an yele speare.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 163^v Speares..lyke vnto troute speares or yele speares.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 213 Kennet, whose Trowt-famous Drift..by Hungerford doth hasten.

1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 35 A greenish eye, a trout-nose, a great mouth.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler v. 126 I shall tel you a little more of Trout fishing before I speak of the Salmon.

1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler v. 128 In Hamp-shire..they use to catch Trouts in the night by the light of a Torch or straw, which when they have discovered, they strike with a Trout spear.

1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 140 [These] may be stiled the Trout-kind.

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Trout-coloured (spoken of Horses) is White speckled with Spots of Black, Bay, or Sorrel, particularly about the Head and Neck.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. xii. 271 It is placed among Meadows washed by a clear Trout Stream.

1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 15 Oh! clear as a trout-stream.

1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 4 A narrow vale, through which runs a trout stream.

1807 Salmagundi 2 June 222 Trout-fishing was my uncle's favourite sport.

1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) ii. 11 He [the peacock red worm] is a good trout-worm.

1839 Spirit of Times 15 June 170/3 Surely a trout rod of fourteen ounces is not likely to fatigue (by the difference of weight in ash and willow) in the last hours of fishing.

1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/1 Get a couple of dozen of trout hooks of assorted sizes.

1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/2 They know every trout hole or deer stand within twenty miles.

1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes I. 189 A scow, chiefest for a trout-pond.

1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 78 They can be caught with small trout hooks, carefully baited.

1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 323 Trout-fishers from distant cities had arrived before us.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 327 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV I hatched about five hundred thousand trout last season, and sold about five hundred thousand impregnated trout spawn.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 328 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A fountain capable of filling constantly a two-inch pipe will sustain a trout preserve which may prove a source of pleasure and profit.

1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 337 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Experimental and initiatory practice in trout-rearing is becoming common upon Long Island.

1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing I. i. 9 His gun, and a trout-rod, and some other things.

1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 199 The swan is a well-known trout-pirate.

1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 7 By the side of a trout-haunted stream.

1887 in W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) II. 509 A trout pond formed the boundary.

1894 Field 9 June 833/3 Fine trout given our society by Mr. A., the trout breeder.

1897 Outing 30 324/2 In this place one can..trace..the trout-brook to its source.

1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 185 The Portuguese peasant lads are expert trout-ticklers.

1904 Pilot Apr. 330/1 It is clear..that the really desirable requies senectæ will be afforded by a trout farm.

1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 14/3 The appearance of the may~fly..is eagerly looked forward to every year by the trout-angler.

1910 H. T. Sheringham in Encycl. Brit. II. 28/2 [article Angling] Grayling injure a trout stream by devouring trout-ova and trout-food.

1936 Discovery Feb. 43/1 It is common knowledge to most trout-fishers that the May Fly has steadily decreased over many parts of the country in recent years.

C2. Special combinations:

trout-fly n. (a) the may-fly; (b) an artificial fly for trout-fishing.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies

stone-flya1450

ant-fly1653

hawthorn-fly1653

mayfly1653

oak fly1653

wall-fly1653

pismire-fly1670

cow-lady1676

mayfly1676

owl fly1676

brown1681

cow-turd-fly1684

trout-fly1746

orl fly1747

hazel fly?1758

iron-blue fly?1758

red spinner?1758

Welshman's button?1758

buzz1760

Yellow Sally1766

ash-fly1787

black caterpillar1787

cow-dung fly1787

sharn-fly1787

spinner1787

woodcock-fly1787

huzzard1799

knop-fly1799

mackerel1799

watchet1799

iron blue1826

knob fly1829

mackerel fly1829

March brown1837

cinnamon fly1867

quill gnat1867

sedge-fly1867

cob-fly1870

woodcock wing1888

sedge1889

olive1895

quill1899

nymph1910

green weenie1977

Montana1987

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > trout flies

trout-fly1746

wren's-tail1837

Greenwell's glory1867

skipjack1867

spent gnat1867

Greenwell1872

heckum-peckum1876

Wickham1876

Saltoun1886

muddler1924

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Trichoptera > family Phryganeidae or genus Phryganea > member of (caddis-fly)

mayfly1640

water moth1668

trout-fly1746

cadew1775

caddis-fly1787

caseworm fly1828

caperer1856

1746 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. May xiii. 84 The Caddis, or Trout Fly. [These] are certainly the best natural Baits of all others for taking Trouts.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 109 They [salmon] will rise at anything gaudy, and where they are plenty, at Trout flies.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 466 The young fish rise freely to trout-flies in rapid water.

1910 H. T. Sheringham in Encycl. Brit. II. 28/2 Grayling will take most small trout-flies.

trout-lily n. U.S. the yellow dog's-tooth violet, Erythronium americanum; cf. erythronium n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers

pansyc1450

heartsease1530

pansy flower1530

three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548

bulbous violet1578

love-in-idleness1578

sweet violet1578

pensea1592

cull-me-to-you1597

dog's tooth violet1597

dog violet1597

kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597

live in idleness1597

wild violet1597

yellow violet1597

love-and-idle1630

love-in-idle1664

trinity1699

fancy1712

wood violet1713

marsh violet1753

tree violet1753

kiss-me-at-the-gate1787

bird's-foot violet1802

Parma violet1812

Johnny-jump-up1827

stepmother1828

Neapolitan violet1830

garden gate1842

butterfly pea1848

kissa1852

pinkany-John1854

viola1871

kiss-me1877

pink-eyed John1877

face and hood1886

roosterhead1894

trout-lily1909

1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 729/2 Trout-lily, the yellow dog-tooth violet.

1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 275 The spring beauties and trout lilies..herald the blooming season.

1975 M. C. Davis Near Woods ix. 148 Almost all the trout-lilies emerging had but single leaves.

trout-line n. (a) a line used in trout fishing; (b) U.S. = trot-line n. at trot n.¹ Compounds.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other types of line

ground-linea1450

ledger-line1653

gildert1681

kipping-linec1686

fly-line1706

night line1726

trout-line1789

train line1828

runner1835

salmon line1850

loop-line1859

stray-line1879

dandy-line1882

kelp line1884

cross-line1891

free line1913

flatline1950

multistrand1960

flatliner1984

the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > trawl-line or set line

boulter1602

spiller1602

bulter1769

trot-line1826

spillet1832

bultow1858

trot1858

trawl1864

set line1865

trawl-line1867

outline1890

trat-line1894

outlier1904

trout-line1912

1789 J. Woodforde Diary 15 July (1927) III. 121 Busy..in making up some new Trout lines and for Eels.

1839 Spirit of Times 13 July 217/1 We have..bought an assortment of trout-lines and flies.

1912 Dial. Notes 3 592 Trout-line, n., a trot-line. Trout-line has grown from the belief that there was something incorrect about trot-line. The line, of course, is not used in catching trout.

1934 Sun (Baltimore) 9 July 11/3 Crabs are reported to be so scarce that trout-line crabbers are able to catch only two barrels daily.

trout-louse n. a fish-louse parasitic on the trout, also called sug.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Copepoda > member of > fish-louse

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trout-louse1653

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1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iii. 90 In winter..many of them have sticking on them Sugs, or Trout lice, which is a kind of worm.

trout-perch n. the black bass (local, U.S.); also a trout-like fish ( Percopsis guttatus) of the rivers and Great Lakes of U.S., having the mouth and scales like those of a perch.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > member of order Percopsiformes

trout-perch1883

the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Micropterus (black bass)

trout1604

black perch1685

Welshman1709

Oswego bass1758

river bass1820

Oswego1857

ringeye1877

slough bass1877

small-mouthed bass1877

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smallmouth bass1880

smallmouth black bass1880

small-mouthed black bass1881

trout-perch1883

bronze-backer1888

smallie1952

1883 Cent. Mag. July 376/2 A description of a Carolina bass was sent to Lacépède under the local name of trout, or trout-perch, who accordingly named it salmoides, meaning trout-like.

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trout-spoon n. a small spoon-bait for trout-fishing ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

trout-stone n. [German forellenstein] Mineralogy = troctolite n.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > other plutonics

dunite1859

napoleonite1866

corsite1876

tonalite1879

trout-stone1892

granodiorite1893

adamellite1896

syenodiorite1917

microdiorite1920

trondhjemite1922

1892 Chambers's Encycl. X. 301 Troctolite (trout-stone), a variety of Gabbro, composed almost entirely of white felspar..and dark olivine.

Derivatives

ˈtrouted adj. [compare French porcelaine truitée] see quot. 1783.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [adjective] > incised > specific incised or relief design

sprigged1756

trouted1783

combed1878

slipped1914

cord-ornamented1925

stroke-ornamented1925

cord1928

1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) III. 153 The trouted china, which no doubt is called so from the resemblance it bears to the scales of a trout.

ˈtroutful adj. full of or abounding in trout.

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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [adjective] > quantity of fish

troutfula1661

trouty1676

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Hants. 1 Clear and fresh rivulets of troutful water.

1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 197 Our troutful little stream of the Esk.

ˈtroutless adj. without trout, devoid of trout.

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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [adjective] > having no trout

troutless1865

1865 Kingsley in Life & Lett. (1879) II. 180 I catch a trout now and then..so I am not left troutless.

1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 15 He maintains that the Bidasoa will be troutless in two years.

ˈtroutlessness n.

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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > having no trout

troutlessness1879

1879 Daily News 25 Nov. 5/2 Dynamite, disease, pollution of rivers, have destroyed their thousands since Thomas Stoddart wrote a sad song on the troutlessness of Yarrow.

ˈtrouty n. a troutlet.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout

troutc1050

torrentillec1460

torrentinea1475

troutlinga1739

troutlet1829

trouty1848

silver trout1873

troutlinga1739

shegger1758

troutlet1829

trouty1848

1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 73 My wilfulness that bright day..was rewarded with a few trouties.

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trout pout n. colloquial (chiefly British) unnaturally swollen lips resulting from the injection of excessive collagen into the lips in a cosmetic procedure intended to enhance their appearance.

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2002 News of World 15 Dec. 15/2 Surgery to plump up her lips left her with what she describes as ‘my trout pout’.

2014 K. Higgins In your Dreams x. 190 Lyric had had a little work done... Weirdly inflated lips—the famous trout pout.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	trout
释义	troutn.¹ Brit. /traʊt/, U.S. /traʊt/ Forms: Old English–Middle English truht, Middle English troit, Middle English trouȝt(e, trouhte, troȝte, Middle English trote, Middle English–1500s trute, trowte, Middle English–1600s troute, Middle English trowȝt(e, trowyt, troughte, trouth(e, troyte, ( tryotht), 1500s–1600s trowt, trought, (1600s trowet, troot), 1500s– trout. Etymology: Old English truht, < late Latin tructus, tructa, truta, trutta, etc. = Greek τρώκτης gnawer, also the name of a sea-fish, < τρώγειν to gnaw; the forms troit, troute, etc. correspond to Old French troite, troute, etc., French truite (13th cent.). 1. a. A well-known freshwater fish of the genus Salmo, esp. S. fario, the common trout, inhabiting most rivers and lakes of the temperate or colder parts of the northern hemisphere; it is distinguished by numerous spots of red and black on its sides and head, and is greatly valued as a sporting fish and on account of its edible quality. See also 3. †sound as a trout: see as sound as a (also†any) roach at roach n.¹ Phrases. Cf. as whole as a trout at whole adj., n., and adv. Phrases 2. Obsolete.grey trout: see first element. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout troutc1050 torrentillec1460 torrentinea1475 troutlinga1739 troutlet1829 trouty1848 silver trout1873 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo fario (common trout) troutc1050 brown trout1661 yellow trout1794 brook trout1869 Cornish brown trout1883 brownie1914 the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > free from injury unwoundedOE wholeOE unwemmedc1175 hailc1275 wemlessc1330 sound as a trouta1450 unmaimeda1470 unmaggled1508 unmenyied?a1513 in (also with) a whole skin1534 woundless1579 unmartyred1580 wound-free1609 invulnered1613 fist-free1615 invulneratea1680 unmangled1885 c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 180/37 Tructa, truht. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 319/15 Tructa, truht. 1290 in Archaeologia (1806) 15 354 Pro uno paner. gurnardi..pro iiij troites. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 423 Perche and trouȝtis. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11884 Bi þat þou þar-of cum vte þou sal be hale sum ani trute [Fairf. troute]. a1450 Fysshynge wyth Angle (1883) 22 For þe Trowte. The trowyt ys a deyntet fyche and a fre bytyng. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 50 Trowȝtes..Wele soþun and hakked. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 577 Gynnys, to tak geddis & salmonys Trowtis elys and als menovnys. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. cxiii. 325 Pastyes of samonde, troutes, and elys, wraped in towels. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Eiii I am forthwith as hole as a troute. 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet 3 I..will giue them line enough like a trowte. 1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie iii. sig. F3 Leaue off your tickling of young heires like trouts. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §1. 389 When we would speak of one who is sound indeed, we say that he is as sound as a Trout. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 200 River-Fish, as Trouts..will alter their figure, some for the better and some for the worse, being put into Ponds. 1727 J. Thomson Summer 26 They, sportive, wheel; or, sailing down the Stream, Are snatch'd, immediate, by the springing Trout. 1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 371 The crimson-spotted Trout, the River's Pride, And Beauty of the Stream. 1790 W. Scott Let. 3 Sept. (1932) I. 13 Two miles from an excellent water for trouts. 1839 Douglas in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 185 The trouts were scarcely covered in the small pools. 1860 P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 6 The streams..where the trout displays his speckled side as he leaps from pool to pool. 1885 Good Words 26 255/2 He may guddle trouts in a stream. b. collective singular (in sporting use taking the place of the plural). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > collective trout1602 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 105^v The pond will moreouer keepe Shote, Peale, Trought, and Sammon, in seasonable plight, but not in their wonted reddish graine. 1609 in Craven Gloss. (1828) 33 pearch and troot from Mawater for my Ld. Judge. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 41 The trout..there have been over praised. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. ii. 12 She was exceedingly fond of trout. 1875 W. McIlwraith Guide Wigtownshire 24 Pike and trout are to be had in the lochs. 2. Used as a name of various fish (chiefly Salmonidæ) resembling the trout in appearance or habits. Now local. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague) bass1530 trout1604 weakfish1686 sea bass1765 corvina1787 salmon1798 sheep's head1836 squeteague1838 grey trout1856 white trout1861 roncador1867 shad-trout1884 squit1884 bastard trout1888 wheat-fish1888 yellowfin1888 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Micropterus (black bass) trout1604 black perch1685 Welshman1709 Oswego bass1758 river bass1820 Oswego1857 ringeye1877 slough bass1877 small-mouthed bass1877 smallmouth1880 smallmouth bass1880 smallmouth black bass1880 small-mouthed black bass1881 trout-perch1883 bronze-backer1888 smallie1952 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salmo salvelinus (char) trout1604 case1658 char1662 red-bellied trout1787 red-spotted trout1884 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > in third year mortc1490 trout1604 yellowbelly1775 salmon mort1893 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xv. 164 I have not seene any Besugues there, nor trowts. 1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 313 Of salars caught in the Ribble, those of the first year are called smolts; those of the second year, sprods; those of the third, trouts. 1884 Mather in Cent. Mag. Apr. 908/1 The name of ‘trout’ is also applied..to a salt-water fish called ‘squeteague’. 1891 G. H. Kingsley Sport & Trav. (1900) 456 Char, known to the natives [of Colorado] by the name of trout. 1897 Outing 30 217/2 In the South, he [the black bass] is commonly called ‘trout’. 3. With defining prefix, as the name of various species of the genus Salmo (or of the allied genus Salvelinus), and occasionally of other genera. bastard trout n. U.S. a squeteague or weak-fish, Cynoscion nothus. brook trout n. Salmo fario; in U.S., S. fontinalis, or S. irideus, the rainbow trout. brown trout n. S. fario. Dolly Varden trout n. U.S. Salvelinus Malma. lake trout n. S. ferox (the great lake trout); in U.S., (a) S. confinis (the North American lake trout), inhabiting the deepest waters of the great lakes; (b) = Mackinaw trout n. Mackinaw trout n. or Namaycush trout n. S. Namaycush, of Lake Huron and Lake Superior. rainbow trout n. S. irideus, a Californian species, now introduced in British trout-streams. red-bellied trout n. the char, S. salvelinus; also S. or Fario erythrogaster, of the lakes of New York State and Pennsylvania. red-spotted trout n. S. fontinalis or S. salvelinus. rock trout n. Chirus constellatus (rock n.¹ Compounds 2d).† skegger trout n. Obsolete = skegger n. speckled trout n. S. fontinalis. white trout n. (a) a variety of S. fario; (b) the weak-fish ( Cynoscion nothus). yellow trout n. a name used in Scotland for the brown trout. See also bull-trout n., salmon-trout n., sea-trout n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus namaycush (lake trout) lake trout1661 Oswego bass1758 namaycush1775 siscowet1838 togue1839 touladi1846 lunge1851 Oswego1857 mackinaw trout1961 mackinaw1968 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo fario (common trout) troutc1050 brown trout1661 yellow trout1794 brook trout1869 Cornish brown trout1883 brownie1914 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo confinis lake trout1661 laker1823 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo ferox (lake-trout) lake trout1661 laker1823 mackinaw trout1838 ferox1876 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salmo salvelinus (char) trout1604 case1658 char1662 red-bellied trout1787 red-spotted trout1884 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout > char red-bellied trout1787 red-spotted trout1884 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Sciaenidae (drums) > [noun] > member of genus Cynoscion (squeteague) bass1530 trout1604 weakfish1686 sea bass1765 corvina1787 salmon1798 sheep's head1836 squeteague1838 grey trout1856 white trout1861 roncador1867 shad-trout1884 squit1884 bastard trout1888 wheat-fish1888 yellowfin1888 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > white trout finnoc1771 finner1803 silver-white?1834 white trout1861 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salvelinus > salvelinus fontinalis (brook trout) mud trout1842 brook trout1869 speckled trout1869 speckle-belly1874 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > salmo irideus (rainbow trout) rainbow1779 hardhead1792 mountain trout1805 brook trout1869 silver trout1873 rainbow trout1881 steel-head1882 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 228 Both the Salmon and gray trouts are very pleasant, and good for sound persons, but in agues they are not comparable to the Perch. 1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 163 Trutta Lacustris, the Lake-Trout. 1787 G. Greive tr. F. J. de Chastellux Trav. N.-Amer. II. 322 We..were constantly supplied with venison, moor game, the most delicious red and yellow bellied trout [et al.]. 1794 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XIII. 345 Fish are not plenty in this river; a few salmon, sea trout, yellow trout, and flounders, are caught in it. 1830 Cabinet Nat. Hist. I. 147 In the outlet..from the lake, none of the lake trout were ever found. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 31 The Grey Trout. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 60 The Great Lake Trout of Loch Awe..was shortly noticed by Pennant..as a native of Ullswater Lake in Cumberland, and of Lough Neagh in Ireland. 1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes II. 74 This species has been called a Red-bellied Trout. 1839 T. T. Stoddart Songs & Poems 51 Is the yellow trout at feed? 1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon,..that is to say, harvest cock, sea trout, white trout, sewin, buntling [etc.]. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 322 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV It is..rank folly to allow so great a delicacy as the speckled brook trout (Salmo fontinalis) to become extinct. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 330 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV The commission has..bred salmon, trout, lake trout (Salmo toma), and land-locked salmon (S. Gloveri). 1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 115 The Grey Trout (Salmo Cambricus). 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 204 Brook Trout, Lake Trout,..Rainbow Trout, Rangeley Trout. 1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 468 According to the latest system..the second group [of the old genus Salmo] includes the Chars, or Red-spotted Trout, and the gray-spotted species known as Salmon Trout, or Lake Trout. These are assigned to the genus Salvelinus. 1884 D. S. Jordan in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 504 The Dolly Varden Trout—Salvelinus Malma,..known in the mountains as ‘Lake Trout’, ‘Bull Trout’, ‘Speckled Trout’, and ‘Red-Spotted Trout’. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 23 Feb. 5/2 Like mice in a house, the little brook-trout are often almost under your feet. 1884 Sat. Rev. 12 July 61/1 Mr. Thomson caught one sixteen-pounder, which seized a yellow trout he was playing. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 120 The Silver Squeteague, Cynoscion nothum, called at Charleston the ‘Bastard Trout’. The ‘White Trout’..is caught with hook and line. 4. slang. †a. Originally in the alliterative phrase true or trusty trout, a confidential friend or servant; so humble trout. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > confidant privya1325 secretarya1387 counsel-keeper1600 confident1619 secretara1628 trustee1641 troutc1661 confidante1709 confidant1741 society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > attendant or personal servant > [noun] > confidential servant or companion troutc1661 companion1697 dame de compagnie1784 souffre-douleur1845 paid companion1853 c1661 in Roxburghe Ballads (1883) IV. 518 I was a trusty trout In all that I went about. 1682 ‘T. Rationalis’ New News from Bedlam 30 They are all very honest Fellows, true Trouts. 1688 T. Shadwell Squire of Alsatia i. i. 5 Your humble Trout, good noble Squire. b. old trout n. a derogatory term for an old woman; cf. trot n.² ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > old person > old woman > [noun] old wifeeOE old womanOE trota1375 carlinec1375 cronec1386 vecke1390 monea1393 hagc1400 ribibec1405 aunt?a1425 crate14.. witchc1475 mauda1500 mackabroine1546 grandam?1550 grannam1565 old lady1575 beldam1580 lucky1629 granny1634 patriarchess1639 runta1652 harridan1699 grimalkin1798 mama1810 tante1815 wifie1823 maw1826 old dear1836 tante1845 Mother Bunch1847 douairière1869 dowager1870 veteraness1880 old trout1897 tab1909 bag1924 crow1925 ma1932 Skinny Liz1940 old bag1947 old boot1958 tannie1958 LOL1960 1897 ‘S. Grand’ Beth Bk. xxxix. 395 They said..they were blessed if they'd go near the old trout again. 1914 D. Beatty Let. 16 Feb. in W. S. Chalmers Life & Lett. David, Earl Beatty (1951) vi. 127 There were some funny old trouts and some spritely young ones, but no raving beauties. 1932 S. Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm xvi. 224 ‘Serve her right, the old trout,’ muttered Flora. 1956 ‘A. Gilbert’ And Death came Too ii. 33 She and her husband always went south to stay with her mother-in-law, an old trout called Lady Dingle. 1972 V. Canning Rainbird Pattern iii. 50 She wasn't such a bad old trout. For all her money and position, life hadn't been all good to her. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as trout-angler, trout-angling, trout-brook, trout farm, trout-hole, trout-hook, trout-line, trout-net, trout ova, trout-pond, trout-preserve, trout-rod, trout-spawn, trout-spear, trout-stream, trout-worm; objective and objective genitive, as trout-breeder, trout-catcher, trout-fisher, trout-fishing, trout-pirate, trout-rearing, trout-tickler; also trout-coloured, trout-famous, trout-haunted adjs.; trout-like adj. ΚΠ 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Fuscina..a troute speare, an yele speare. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. xi. f. 163^v Speares..lyke vnto troute speares or yele speares. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 213 Kennet, whose Trowt-famous Drift..by Hungerford doth hasten. 1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 35 A greenish eye, a trout-nose, a great mouth. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler v. 126 I shall tel you a little more of Trout fishing before I speak of the Salmon. View more context for this quotation 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler v. 128 In Hamp-shire..they use to catch Trouts in the night by the light of a Torch or straw, which when they have discovered, they strike with a Trout spear. View more context for this quotation 1668 Bp. J. Wilkins Ess. Real Char. 140 [These] may be stiled the Trout-kind. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Trout-coloured (spoken of Horses) is White speckled with Spots of Black, Bay, or Sorrel, particularly about the Head and Neck. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia I. iii. xii. 271 It is placed among Meadows washed by a clear Trout Stream. 1770 S. Foote Lame Lover i. 15 Oh! clear as a trout-stream. 1799 A. Young Gen. View Agric. County Lincoln 4 A narrow vale, through which runs a trout stream. 1807 Salmagundi 2 June 222 Trout-fishing was my uncle's favourite sport. 1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. (1841) ii. 11 He [the peacock red worm] is a good trout-worm. 1839 Spirit of Times 15 June 170/3 Surely a trout rod of fourteen ounces is not likely to fatigue (by the difference of weight in ash and willow) in the last hours of fishing. 1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/1 Get a couple of dozen of trout hooks of assorted sizes. 1840 Spirit of Times 5 Sept. 319/2 They know every trout hole or deer stand within twenty miles. 1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes I. 189 A scow, chiefest for a trout-pond. 1845 J. Coulter Adventures Pacific vii. 78 They can be caught with small trout hooks, carefully baited. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 323 Trout-fishers from distant cities had arrived before us. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 327 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV I hatched about five hundred thousand trout last season, and sold about five hundred thousand impregnated trout spawn. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 328 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV A fountain capable of filling constantly a two-inch pipe will sustain a trout preserve which may prove a source of pleasure and profit. 1869 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Agric. 1868 337 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 3rd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc.) XV Experimental and initiatory practice in trout-rearing is becoming common upon Long Island. 1883 W. E. Norris No New Thing I. i. 9 His gun, and a trout-rod, and some other things. 1884 R. Jefferies Life of Fields 199 The swan is a well-known trout-pirate. 1887 J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 7 By the side of a trout-haunted stream. 1887 in W. Whitman Daybks. & Notebks. (1978) II. 509 A trout pond formed the boundary. 1894 Field 9 June 833/3 Fine trout given our society by Mr. A., the trout breeder. 1897 Outing 30 324/2 In this place one can..trace..the trout-brook to its source. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 185 The Portuguese peasant lads are expert trout-ticklers. 1904 Pilot Apr. 330/1 It is clear..that the really desirable requies senectæ will be afforded by a trout farm. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 28 Apr. 14/3 The appearance of the may~fly..is eagerly looked forward to every year by the trout-angler. 1910 H. T. Sheringham in Encycl. Brit. II. 28/2 [article Angling] Grayling injure a trout stream by devouring trout-ova and trout-food. 1936 Discovery Feb. 43/1 It is common knowledge to most trout-fishers that the May Fly has steadily decreased over many parts of the country in recent years. C2. Special combinations: trout-fly n. (a) the may-fly; (b) an artificial fly for trout-fishing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies stone-flya1450 ant-fly1653 hawthorn-fly1653 mayfly1653 oak fly1653 wall-fly1653 pismire-fly1670 cow-lady1676 mayfly1676 owl fly1676 brown1681 cow-turd-fly1684 trout-fly1746 orl fly1747 hazel fly?1758 iron-blue fly?1758 red spinner?1758 Welshman's button?1758 buzz1760 Yellow Sally1766 ash-fly1787 black caterpillar1787 cow-dung fly1787 sharn-fly1787 spinner1787 woodcock-fly1787 huzzard1799 knop-fly1799 mackerel1799 watchet1799 iron blue1826 knob fly1829 mackerel fly1829 March brown1837 cinnamon fly1867 quill gnat1867 sedge-fly1867 cob-fly1870 woodcock wing1888 sedge1889 olive1895 quill1899 nymph1910 green weenie1977 Montana1987 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > artificial fly > trout flies trout-fly1746 wren's-tail1837 Greenwell's glory1867 skipjack1867 spent gnat1867 Greenwell1872 heckum-peckum1876 Wickham1876 Saltoun1886 muddler1924 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > division Endopterygota or Metabola (winged) > [noun] > order Trichoptera > family Phryganeidae or genus Phryganea > member of (caddis-fly) mayfly1640 water moth1668 trout-fly1746 cadew1775 caddis-fly1787 caseworm fly1828 caperer1856 1746 W. Ellis Agric. Improv'd I. May xiii. 84 The Caddis, or Trout Fly. [These] are certainly the best natural Baits of all others for taking Trouts. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 109 They [salmon] will rise at anything gaudy, and where they are plenty, at Trout flies. 1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 466 The young fish rise freely to trout-flies in rapid water. 1910 H. T. Sheringham in Encycl. Brit. II. 28/2 Grayling will take most small trout-flies. trout-lily n. U.S. the yellow dog's-tooth violet, Erythronium americanum; cf. erythronium n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > pea flowers > violet and allied flowers > allied flowers pansyc1450 heartsease1530 pansy flower1530 three (also two) faces under (or in) a (or one) hood1548 bulbous violet1578 love-in-idleness1578 sweet violet1578 pensea1592 cull-me-to-you1597 dog's tooth violet1597 dog violet1597 kiss-me-ere-I-rise1597 live in idleness1597 wild violet1597 yellow violet1597 love-and-idle1630 love-in-idle1664 trinity1699 fancy1712 wood violet1713 marsh violet1753 tree violet1753 kiss-me-at-the-gate1787 bird's-foot violet1802 Parma violet1812 Johnny-jump-up1827 stepmother1828 Neapolitan violet1830 garden gate1842 butterfly pea1848 kissa1852 pinkany-John1854 viola1871 kiss-me1877 pink-eyed John1877 face and hood1886 roosterhead1894 trout-lily1909 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. 729/2 Trout-lily, the yellow dog-tooth violet. 1943 R. Peattie Great Smokies & Blue Ridge 275 The spring beauties and trout lilies..herald the blooming season. 1975 M. C. Davis Near Woods ix. 148 Almost all the trout-lilies emerging had but single leaves. trout-line n. (a) a line used in trout fishing; (b) U.S. = trot-line n. at trot n.¹ Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > other types of line ground-linea1450 ledger-line1653 gildert1681 kipping-linec1686 fly-line1706 night line1726 trout-line1789 train line1828 runner1835 salmon line1850 loop-line1859 stray-line1879 dandy-line1882 kelp line1884 cross-line1891 free line1913 flatline1950 multistrand1960 flatliner1984 the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > trawl-line or set line boulter1602 spiller1602 bulter1769 trot-line1826 spillet1832 bultow1858 trot1858 trawl1864 set line1865 trawl-line1867 outline1890 trat-line1894 outlier1904 trout-line1912 1789 J. Woodforde Diary 15 July (1927) III. 121 Busy..in making up some new Trout lines and for Eels. 1839 Spirit of Times 13 July 217/1 We have..bought an assortment of trout-lines and flies. 1912 Dial. Notes 3 592 Trout-line, n., a trot-line. Trout-line has grown from the belief that there was something incorrect about trot-line. The line, of course, is not used in catching trout. 1934 Sun (Baltimore) 9 July 11/3 Crabs are reported to be so scarce that trout-line crabbers are able to catch only two barrels daily. trout-louse n. a fish-louse parasitic on the trout, also called sug. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Entomostraca > order Copepoda > member of > fish-louse sug1653 trout-louse1653 fish-louse- 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler iii. 90 In winter..many of them have sticking on them Sugs, or Trout lice, which is a kind of worm. View more context for this quotation trout-perch n. the black bass (local, U.S.); also a trout-like fish ( Percopsis guttatus) of the rivers and Great Lakes of U.S., having the mouth and scales like those of a perch. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > [noun] > member of order Percopsiformes trout-perch1883 the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Centrarchidae (sun-fish) > [noun] > member of genus Micropterus (black bass) trout1604 black perch1685 Welshman1709 Oswego bass1758 river bass1820 Oswego1857 ringeye1877 slough bass1877 small-mouthed bass1877 smallmouth1880 smallmouth bass1880 smallmouth black bass1880 small-mouthed black bass1881 trout-perch1883 bronze-backer1888 smallie1952 1883 Cent. Mag. July 376/2 A description of a Carolina bass was sent to Lacépède under the local name of trout, or trout-perch, who accordingly named it salmoides, meaning trout-like. Categories » trout-spoon n. a small spoon-bait for trout-fishing ( Cent. Dict. 1891). trout-stone n. [German forellenstein] Mineralogy = troctolite n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > igneous rock > [noun] > plutonic rocks > other plutonics dunite1859 napoleonite1866 corsite1876 tonalite1879 trout-stone1892 granodiorite1893 adamellite1896 syenodiorite1917 microdiorite1920 trondhjemite1922 1892 Chambers's Encycl. X. 301 Troctolite (trout-stone), a variety of Gabbro, composed almost entirely of white felspar..and dark olivine. Derivatives ˈtrouted adj. [compare French porcelaine truitée] see quot. 1783. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > decoration of china > [adjective] > incised > specific incised or relief design sprigged1756 trouted1783 combed1878 slipped1914 cord-ornamented1925 stroke-ornamented1925 cord1928 1783 J. O. Justamond tr. G. T. F. Raynal Philos. Hist. Europeans in Indies (new ed.) III. 153 The trouted china, which no doubt is called so from the resemblance it bears to the scales of a trout. ˈtroutful adj. full of or abounding in trout. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > [adjective] > quantity of fish troutfula1661 trouty1676 a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Hants. 1 Clear and fresh rivulets of troutful water. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Forty Years Moorland Parish 197 Our troutful little stream of the Esk. ˈtroutless adj. without trout, devoid of trout. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [adjective] > having no trout troutless1865 1865 Kingsley in Life & Lett. (1879) II. 180 I catch a trout now and then..so I am not left troutless. 1904 W. M. Gallichan Fishing & Trav. Spain 15 He maintains that the Bidasoa will be troutless in two years. ˈtroutlessness n. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > having no trout troutlessness1879 1879 Daily News 25 Nov. 5/2 Dynamite, disease, pollution of rivers, have destroyed their thousands since Thomas Stoddart wrote a sad song on the troutlessness of Yarrow. ˈtrouty n. a troutlet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > seafood > [noun] > fish > trout troutc1050 torrentillec1460 torrentinea1475 troutlinga1739 troutlet1829 trouty1848 silver trout1873 the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > little troutlinga1739 shegger1758 troutlet1829 trouty1848 1848 Fraser's Mag. 38 73 My wilfulness that bright day..was rewarded with a few trouties. Draft additions June 2016 trout pout n. colloquial (chiefly British) unnaturally swollen lips resulting from the injection of excessive collagen into the lips in a cosmetic procedure intended to enhance their appearance. ΚΠ 2002 News of World 15 Dec. 15/2 Surgery to plump up her lips left her with what she describes as ‘my trout pout’. 2014 K. Higgins In your Dreams x. 190 Lyric had had a little work done... Weirdly inflated lips—the famous trout pout. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † troutn.² Forms: Also Middle English trowtt. Etymology: Of uncertain origin. dialect. Obsolete. plural. (See quot. 1691.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [noun] > milk > curds curd1378 slipc1425 wrench-milk1510 well curds1538 float-wheyc1550 ricoct1582 curdlea1591 bonny clabber1605 fleeting1611 clabber1634 yearned milk?1635 trouts1683 sweet-cheese1688 earning1744 slip curd1784 1683 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. (E.D.S. No. 76) 402 Ile give um some Trouts, reach me hither th' Bowl. 1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 77 Trouts, Curds taken off the Whey when it is boiled: a Rustick word. In some places they call them Trotters. Derivatives † trout v. Obsolete to curdle, coagulate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > [verb (intransitive)] > curdle or become curdled runeOE loppera1300 curda1398 to run togethera1398 quaila1425 trout1483 lop1570 turn1577 quar1578 curdle1586 caille1601 to set together1608 set1736 whig1756 shill1876 clabber1880 1483 Cath. Angl. 395/1 To Trowtt, coagulare. Trowttis, coagulum. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹c1050n.²1483
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