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trouting

trouting is the present participle and gerund of trout.

Meaning of trout

Verb

trout (third-person singular simple present trouts, present participle trouting, simple past and past participle trouted)

  1. (intransitive) To fish for trout.
    • God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder?1871 October, James Grant, “Under the Red Dragon”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume IX, chapter III (By Express), pages 251–252
  2. (transitive, Internet chat) To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

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Questions about trouting

What is trouting the present participle and gerund of?
Trouting is the present participle and gerund of trout.

Words near trouting in the dictionary

  1. trouters
  2. troutful
  3. troutier
  4. troutiest
  5. troutiness
  6. trouting
  7. troutless
  8. troutlet
  9. troutlets
  10. troutlike
  11. troutling

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