Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abounding in trout.

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  • adjective Containing trout.

Etymologies

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trout +‎ -y

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Examples

  • Then he spread his trademark trouty lips and tombstone teeth into the boyish grin that defined one of the cult comedies of the 90s.

    After 10 years 'Larry Sanders' is back Joanna Walters in New York 2010

  • From quiet and uneventful stretches of hedgeless corn-fields, intersected by long straight roads, lined sometimes with poplars, but more often with lopped wych-elms or willows, we descended rather suddenly into a little wooded valley where a village sits by the trouty stream.

    Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front Keith Henderson 1932

  • There were no trout, to be sure, within a hundred miles, and there was no way of getting to any trouty realm of delight.

    The Joyful Heart Robert Haven Schauffler 1921

  • I climbed the stone wall beside, glanced at the water — very trouty water indeed — glanced at the hill-pasture above — very arbutusy indeed — laid down my rod and my trout and my box, and ran up the low bank to a clump of bay and berry-bushes that I thought I remembered.

    More Jonathan Papers Elisabeth Woodbridge Morris 1917

  • Every spire of pine along the hill-top, every trouty pool along that mountain river, was more dear to me than a blood relation.

    Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays 1892

  • His mental gaze was directed at the salmon stream, the trouty lochs, the moors with their grouse and black game, and the mountains by

    Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai George Manville Fenn 1870

  • So thinks Tom, and trusts to his tackle, keeping a steady strain on trouty, and creeping gently down stream.

    Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

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