troutful
troutful adjective: of a body of water: well stocked with trout.
Adjective
troutful (comparative more troutful, superlative most troutful)
- Of a body of water: well stocked with trout.
- I sit, as I write, beside the very troutful River Test, and on a stretch of it perhaps troutful above all others.1925, Horatio Gordon Hutchinson, A Fellowship of Anglers: With 19 Illustrations, page 99
- The stream had been described 30 years before as "a once troutful tributary." Perhaps it was now less troutful, its trout smaller. But to me it teemed, and its inhabitants were leviathans.1970, Country Life, volume 148, page 236
Forms of troutful
| comparative | more troutful |
|---|---|
| superlative | most troutful |
Origin of troutful
From trout + -ful.
Questions about troutful
- What does troutful mean?
- Troutful means of a body of water: well stocked with trout.
- What part of speech is troutful?
- Troutful is an adjective.
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