different between trout vs whitefish

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.

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Anagrams

• Routt, Tutor, tutor

English

Etymology

white +? fish

Noun

whitefish (plural whitefishes or whitefish)

1. Any of many fish.
   1. Any of several North American freshwater fish, of the genus Coregonus, used as food.
   2. Any of several other fish, such as whiting or menhaden.
   3. (fisheries) Any of several species of demersal fish with fins, particularly cod, whiting, and haddock, as opposed to the oily or pelagic fishes.
2. The beluga (both the sturgeon and the whale)

Derived terms

• common whitefish
• Coney Island whitefish

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