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Trout vs Skirling - What's the difference?

trout | skirling |

As nouns the difference between trout and skirling

is that trout is any of several species of fish in salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once while skirling is (uk|dialect) a small trout or salmon.

As verbs the difference between trout and skirling

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

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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  • 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.

    • Anagrams

    * English nouns with irregular plurals

    skirling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A small trout or salmon.
  • (Northern England, and, Scotland) A shrill cry or sound; a crying shrilly; a skirl.
    • (Sir Walter Scott)
  • * Mrs J. H. Ewing
    • When the skirling of the pipes cleft the air his cold eyes softened.

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