What does troutling mean?
Troutling means A young trout..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
A young trout..
1747, Charles Jarvis (translator), The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, Dublin: Peter Wilson, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 173, So there be many troutlings, answered Don Quixote they may serve me instead of one trout; for I would as willingly be paid eight single reals, as one real of eight: and the rather, because perhaps these troutlings are like veal, which is preferable to beef […]
‘[…] I dare say some trout in the river—hey?—the stream looks lively.’ ‘Middling, only—poor gray troutlings, Sir—not a soul cares to fish it but myself,’ he answered.
They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,
‘[…] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’
Use troutling when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Troutling means A young trout..
Common synonyms include troutlet.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1747, Charles Jarvis (translator), The Life and Exploits of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes, Dublin: Peter Wilson, Volume 1, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 173, So there be many troutlings, answered Don Quixote they may serve me instead of one trout; for I would as willingly be paid eight single reals, as one real of eight: and the rather, because perhaps these troutlings are like veal, which is preferable to beef […]
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