Meaning

2 senses
  1. (intransitive)To fish for trout.

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

Examples

63 sentences
  1. Tom caught a big trout.

    Том піймав велику форель.

    ruТом поймал большую форель.

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  2. Tom landed a big trout.

    Том зловив велику форель.

    ruТом поймал большую форель.

    deTom landete eine große Forelle.

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  3. Tom caught a large trout.

    Том зловив велику форель.

    ruТом поймал большую форель.

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  4. Tom caught a trout.

    Том зловив форель.

    deTom hat eine Forelle gefischt.

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  5. Trout is my favorite fish.

    Форель — моя улюблена риба.

    ruФорель - моя любимая рыба.

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Translations

1 languages

Origin

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English tru

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, “to 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.

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Forms

trouts, trouting, trouted, trouted
Base formtrout · to trout
3rd person singulartrouts
Present participletrouting
Past simpletrouted
Past participletrouted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytrout
he, she, ittrouts

Past simpleLesson

all personstrouted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave trouted
he, she, ithas trouted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill trout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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