trout

Meanings

Noun

flesh of any of several primarily freshwater game and food fishes
any of various game and food fishes of cool fresh waters mostly smaller than typical salmons
Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
An objectionable elderly woman.

Verb

To fish for trout.
To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to rub, to turn”). The Internet verb sense originated on BBSes of the 1980s, probably from Monty Python's The Fish-Slapping Dance (1972), though that sketch involved a halibut.

Scrabble Score: 5

trout is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
trout is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
trout is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 6

trout is a valid Words With Friends word