Meaning of trout | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
   countable, uncountable
2. A surname.
3. An objectionable elderly woman.
   British, countable, derogatory, uncountable
4. fish
5. queer
6. sharp, clever, cunning

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Examples

“Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.”

“Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].”

““This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.””

“Roman matrons, sexually exhausted, were fond of trout caught in a little stream in the Vosges Mountains.”

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

“But French observers were perplexed not just by the Benny Hill-style frenzy, but by the ensuing British tabloid handwringing about how unfair it was that the UK's women ministers were such a load of ugly trouts compared to Sarkozy's sexy French ladies.”

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