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troutling

troutling noun: a young trout.

Noun

troutling (plural troutlings)

  1. A young trout.
    • So there be many troutlings, answered Don Quixote they may serve me instead of one trout; for I would as willingly be paid eight single reals, as one real of eight: and the rather, because perhaps these troutlings are like veal, which is preferable to beef […]1747, Charles Jarvis (translator), The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, Dublin: Peter Wilson, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 173
    • ‘[…] I dare say some trout in the river—hey?—the stream looks lively.’
      ‘Middling, only—poor gray troutlings, Sir—not a soul cares to fish it but myself,’ he answered.1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 20, in The House by the Churchyard, London: Macmillan, published 1899, page 95
    Synonyms:
    troutlet

Examples of troutling in a sentence

  • They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,1904, Mary Hunter Austin, The Basket Woman, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 27:
  • ‘[…] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’2012, Simon Brett, chapter 15, in Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger’s Moll, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, published 2014, page 110:

Synonyms of troutling

Forms of troutling

pluraltroutlings

Origin of troutling

From trout + -ling.

Questions about troutling

What does troutling mean?
Troutling means a young trout.
How do you use troutling in a sentence?
They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,
What part of speech is troutling?
Troutling is a noun.
What is the plural of troutling?
The plural of troutling is troutlings.

Words near troutling in the dictionary

  1. trouting
  2. troutless
  3. troutlet
  4. troutlets
  5. troutlike
  6. troutling
  7. troutlings
  8. Troutman
  9. Troutner
  10. Troutners
  11. Trouton's rule

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