Meaning

2 senses

  1. (countable, uncountable)Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

    Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.

    Forelle

    форе́льforɛ́lʹ

    форе́льforélʹ

  2. (UK, countable, derogatory, uncountable)An objectionable elderly woman.

    Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!

More definitions
  • any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
  • flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes

Examples

63 sentences

  1. Tom caught a big trout.

    Том піймав велику форель. — rmdas

    ruТом поймал большую форель. — venticello

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  2. Tom landed a big trout.

    Том зловив велику форель. — deniko

    ruТом поймал большую форель. — venticello

    deTom landete eine große Forelle. — wolfgangth

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  3. Tom caught a large trout.

    Том зловив велику форель. — deniko

    ruТом поймал большую форель. — venticello

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  4. Tom caught a trout.

    Том зловив форель. — deniko

    deTom hat eine Forelle gefischt. — felix63

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  5. Trout is my favorite fish.

    Форель — моя улюблена риба. — deniko

    ruФорель - моя любимая рыба. — marafon

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Translations

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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

plural: trout / trouts
Singulartrout
Pluraltrout / trouts

regular

Word family

27 related words
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Lessons for this word

2 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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