troutnoun
uk/traʊt/us/traʊt/trout noun (FISH)
[ C or U ] plural trout or trouts a fish that lives in rivers and lakes, or lives in the sea but returns to rivers to produce its eggs, that is a popular food:
Thousands of young salmon and trout have been killed by pollution.
The lake is famous for its trout fishing.
[ U ] the flesh of this fish eaten as food:
I had some perfectly cooked trout.
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Sea fish
- anchovy
- barracuda
- bream
- cod
- coley
- flying fish
- groper
- haddock
- hake
- halibut
- pollack
- ray
- remora
- salmon
- salmon trout
- sturgeon
- swordfish
- tuna
- turbot
- white pointer
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Freshwater fish
Fish & seafood
trout noun (PERSON)
[ C ] plural trouts UK informal an old person, especially a woman, who is unpleasant or not attractive:
She's a miserable old trout who complains about everything.
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Unpleasant women
- bag
- battleaxe
- bitch
- cow
- crone
- dog
- dragon
- fishwife
- hag
- harpy
- harridan
- misandry
- she-devil
- shrew
- termagant
- virago
- vixen
- witch