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Trout vs Crout - What's the difference?

trout | crout |

As nouns the difference between trout and crout

is that trout is any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once while crout is sauerkraut.

As a verb trout

is to (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

As a proper noun Trout

is {{surname|lang=en}.

trout

English

Noun

(wikipedia trout) (en-noun)
  • Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
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  • , 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.
  • Derived terms

    * brown trout * rainbow trout * salmon trout * Sevan trout

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout ; to admonish jocularly.
  • crout

    English

    Noun

  • (archaic) sauerkraut
  • * 1869 , Edward Parmelee Smith, Incidents of the United States Christian commission (page 419)
  • It was an invoice from the town of Lebanon, Ohio, of thirty-four barrels of crout and pickled cabbage. I could not help crying out on the spot — "Thank God for Lebanon! Thank God for the crout and cabbage."