trout
Noun
- A freshwater fish of the salmon family, valued for sport and food.
- flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
- any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
- Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
- An objectionable elderly woman.
Verb
- To fish for trout.
- To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
Examples
- His Scrabble rack, like a clear mountain stream, yielded a prized ’TROUT’ for 20 points.
- Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!
- Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.
Scrabble Score: 5
trout: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordtrout: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
trout: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
trout: valid Words With Friends Word