Question 1 · Quick check
trout
CEFRB1
/tɹaʊt/
noun · verb
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A freshwater fish often caught for food or sport.
- 02
noun
Extra detailAn objectionable elderly woman.
Examples
Such fishes as carp and trout live in fresh water.
This lake abounds in trout.
At a glance
Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 2
- Citations
- 5
Also pronounced
- /tɹʌʊt/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsTo fish for trout.
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
verb
Extra meaningTo (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.
More examples
In contextThis river abounds in trout.
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.
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Origin
noun
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.