trout
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
trout/traʊt/
▶noun (pl. same or trouts) an edible fish of the salmon family, chiefly inhabiting fresh water. [Salmo trutta (brown trout, sea trout) and other species.] ▶verb (as noun trouting) fishing for trout.
– phrases
old trout informal an annoying or bad-tempered old woman.
old trout informal an annoying or bad-tempered old woman.
– origin OE truht, from late L. tructa, based on Gk trōgein ‘gnaw’.
'trout' also found in these Oxford entries:
alevin
- brown trout
- bull trout
- charr
- coarse fish
- cut-throat
- furunculosis
- game fish
- kelt
- lake trout
- parr
- rainbow trout
- redd
- salmonid
- salmon trout
- sea trout
- smolt
- spinner
- splake
- steelhead
- tickle
- troctolite
