trouty

trouty

See also: Trouty

English

Etymology

trout +‎ -y

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aʊti

Adjective

trouty (comparative troutier, superlative troutiest)

1. Containing trout.
   • 1856, Knickerbocker

     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

   • 1929 Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

     The stream was clear and shallow but it did not look trouty.

   • 1992, Wallace Earle Stegner, The gathering of Zion: the story of the Mormon Trail, page 159:

     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 casting...

Anagrams

• try out, tryout, tutory