Trout vs Trouty - What's the difference?
trout | trouty |
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
*
, 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.
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 proper nouns the difference between trout and trouty
is that trout is {{surname|lang=en} while Trouty is a settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.As a noun trout
is any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.As a verb trout
is to (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.As an adjective trouty is
containing trout.trout
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