trout

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
2. (British, countable, derogatory, uncountable) An objectionable elderly woman.

Verb

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

Synonyms

sea trout

shoat

fish

🐟

longface emperor

cutthroat trout

gila trout

golden trout

steelhead trout

lipper

longnosed emperor

north-west snapper

red-throat emperor

red-throated emperor

tricky snapper

brown trout

trumpet emperor

Translations

truite

Forelle

trota

forel

trucha

truta

truita

alabalık

πέστροφα

tructa

gewone forel

trutta

سمك الترويت

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹaʊt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: troute

Inherited from Old English: truht

In summary

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.