troutとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from 古期英語 truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “I gnaw”), from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“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.

発音

• IPA^(key): /tɹaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /tɹʌʊt/
• 韻: -aʊt

名詞

trout (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 trout または trouts)

1. Any of several species of fish in Salmonidae, closely related to salmon, and distinguished by spawning more than once.

   Many anglers consider trout to be the archetypical quarry.

   • 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 8, in The Celebrity:

     Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: […] .

   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “3/19/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎^[1]:

     “This morning,” he said, “We will fish, Turner. We will cast for trout so that we may catch grayling.”

2. (Britain, derogatory) An objectionable elderly woman.

   Look, you silly old trout, you can't keep bringing home cats! You can't afford the ones you have!

派生語

動詞

trout (三人称単数 現在形 trouts, 現在分詞 trouting, 過去形および過去分詞形 trouted)

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