Grouty vs Trouty - What's the difference?
grouty | trouty |
Full of grout(s), that is, sediment.
* 1746 , William Ellis, Agriculture improv'd: or, The practice of husbandry display'd , page 74:
* 1830 , William Kitchiner, The Cook's Oracle and Housekeeper's Manual , page 193:
Angry or surly, sulky.
* 1888 , in the New Englander and Yale Review , volume 48, page 33:
* 2003 , Diane Ayres, Other Girls , page 390:
* 2005 , Evelyn Richardson, Desired Haven , page 3:
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Turbid as with liquor.
Containing trout.
*1856 , , Knickerbocker
*:The grass improved, they saw wild- flowers and flax, and when the water of the creek took his fancy as looking trouty , Wilford Woodruff got out the artificial flies he had brought from his last mission in England and tried a little
* c. 1926 Rudyard Kipling - "Alnaschar and the Oxen" from the collection Debits and Credits
*:At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula felt''
* 1929 Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises
*:The stream was clear and shallow but it did not look trouty .
*1992 , Wallace Earle Stegner, The gathering of Zion: the story of the Mormon Trail , page 159
*:The grass improved, they saw wild-flowers and flax, and when the water of the creek took his fancy as looking trouty , Wilford Woodruff got out the artificial flies he had brought from his last mission in England and tried a little casting...
As an adjective grouty
is full of grout(s), that is, sediment or grouty can be angry or surly, sulky.As a proper noun trouty is
a settlement in newfoundland and labrador.grouty
English
Etymology 1
.Adjective
(head)- the Wash of the Dung runs into this Pond, and thickens it to that degree, that many have wondered how the Cattle could drink such grouty , black, stinking Water, full of Lice, Worms, Bugs, and other Insects.
- Stew no longer than the meat is thoroughly done to eat, and you will obtain excellent broth, without depriving the meat of its nutritious succulence : to boil it to rags, as is the common practice, will not enrich your broths, but make them thick and grouty .
Etymology 2
Of uncertain origin; compare grouchy .Adjective
(head)- How easy to be kind and pleasant: how uncomfortable to be rude and grouty !
- Amanda was fuming. But then, the telltale grappling and stumble step backward—thump—against the wall, which braced them through the ensuing make-out moment, however brief, until the grouty girl could be heard cooing with pleasure.
- Though I suppose if you've no one to love but a grouty old mother, you don't have the worry and fear for your menfolk heavy on you, Mercy conceded.
