different between trout vs steelhead

English

Etymology

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trou?t, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek ??????? (tr?kt?s, “nibbler”), from ????? (tr?g?, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh?- (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?t/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t???t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

trout (countable and uncountable, plural trout or trouts)

1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.
2. (Britain, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

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

1. (Internet chat) To (figuratively) slap someone with a slimy, stinky, wet trout; to admonish jocularly.

Translations

Anagrams

• Routt, Tutor, tutor

English

Etymology

steel +? head

Noun

steelhead (plural steelheads or steelhead)

1. The anadromous form of the rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss.
   • 2007, John Shewey, On the Fly Guide to the Northwest (page 79)

     She tried the same cast several times. I signaled her to switch flies. After two such changes we still couldn't move the fish. Some steelhead are biters; some are not.
2. The ruddy duck.

Synonyms

• (fish): steelhead salmon

See also

• steelhead on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• lead sheet, leadsheet