trouty

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Definition of trouty

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Containing trout.
    “The grass improved, they saw wild-flowers and flax, and when the water of the creek took his fancy as looking trouty, Wilford Woodruff got out the artificial flies he had brought from his last mission in England and tried a little”
    “c. 1926 Rudyard Kipling - "Alnaschar and the Oxen" from the collection Debits and Credits At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula felt”
    “The stream was clear and shallow but it did not look trouty.”
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adj

  1. Containing trout.
    “The grass improved, they saw wild-flowers and flax, and when the water of the creek took his fancy as looking trouty, Wilford Woodruff got out the artificial flies he had brought from his last mission in England and tried a little”
    “c. 1926 Rudyard Kipling - "Alnaschar and the Oxen" from the collection Debits and Credits At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula felt”
    “The stream was clear and shallow but it did not look trouty.”
  2. Resembling or characteristic of trout.
    “Except in extremely hot weather, I have found that trout packed in this manner reach Boston in very fine order, and have quite a trouty taste and appearance; […]”

name

  1. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Etymology

From trout + -y.

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