different between trout vs strout

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.

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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

From Middle English. See etymology of the corresponding sense of strut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /st?a?t/

Verb

strout (third-person singular simple present strouts, present participle strouting, simple past and past participle strouted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cause to project or swell out; to enlarge affectedly; to strut.
   • 1623, Francis Bacon, A Discourse of a War with Spain

     I will make a brief list of the particulars themselves in an historical truth , no ways strouted , nor made greater by language

2. (obsolete, intransitive) Alternative form of strut (“to swell; protuberate; bulge or spread out”)
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 222[1]:

     The daintie Clover growes (of grasse the onely silke)

     That makes each Udder strout abundantly with milke.

Anagrams

• Routts, Trotu?, Tutors, trouts, tutors