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trouty

trouty adjective: containing trout.

Adjective

trouty (comparative troutier, superlative troutiest)

  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 little1856, Knickerbocker
    • At the gate beside the river where the trouty shallows brawl, I know the pride that Lobengula feltc. 1926 Rudyard Kipling - "Alnaschar and the Oxen" from the collection Debits and Credits
  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; […]1881, Charles Woodbury Stevens, Fly-fishing in Maine Lakes: Or, Camp-life in the Wilderness, page 70

Proper noun capitalized: Trouty

Trouty

  1. A settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Forms of trouty

comparativetroutier
superlativetroutiest

Origin of trouty

From trout + -y.

Words formed from trouty

Words that rhyme with trouty

Questions about trouty

What does trouty mean?
Trouty means containing trout.
What part of speech is trouty?
Trouty can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near trouty in the dictionary

  1. Trouton's rule
  2. troutperch
  3. trouts
  4. Troutt
  5. Troutts
  6. trouty
  7. trouvaille
  8. trouvailles
  9. trouveur
  10. trouveurs
  11. Trouville-sur-Mer

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