Routed vs Trouted - What's the difference?
routed | trouted |
(route)
(chiefly, in combination) assigned a route
(rout)
decisively beaten or defeated
(trout)
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout -streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Michael Arlen), title=“Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days, chapter=3/19/2
, passage=“This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”}}
An elderly woman of dubious sensibilities.
To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout ; to admonish jocularly.
As verbs the difference between routed and trouted
is that routed is (route) or routed can be (rout) while trouted is (trout).As an adjective routed
is (chiefly|in combination) assigned a route or routed can be decisively beaten or defeated.routed
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Etymology 1
From .Verb
(head)Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
From .Verb
(head)Adjective
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* English heteronymstrouted
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
*trout
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Noun
(wikipedia trout) (en-noun)citation