Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A young or small trout; a troutling. Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A little trout; a troutling.

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  • noun A young trout.

Etymologies

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trout +‎ -let

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Examples

  • "troutlet;" so they asked him if he thought he could eat troutlet, for there was no other fish to give him.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • These he arranged methodically on the cleared space; on the top of the tiny pyre he placed the troutlet.

    Uncanny Tales Various

  • He flogged away, but hung his fly clear of the stream at every second cast and deceived not the smallest troutlet of them all.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Still, it is a pity to see so fair a maid cast like rotten bait upon the waters to hook this troutlet of a yeoman.

    Eric Brighteyes Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Omaha road, and the shy and beautiful troutlet, and the dark and silent

    Remarks Bill Nye 1873

  • The swift rush of the current carried the fly instantly downwards, but not so quick as to escape a troutlet; he took it, and was landed immediately.

    The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867

  • So low was he that he preferred Gibsen’s tea-time salmon tinned, as inexpensive as pleasing, to the plumpest roeheavy lax or the friskiest parr or smolt troutlet that ever was gaffed between Leixlip and Island Bridge and many was the time he repeated in his botulism that no junglegrown pineapple ever smacked like the whoppers you shook out of Ananias’ cans,

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • "curadillo," and in others "troutlet;" so they asked him if he thought he could eat troutlet, for there was no other fish to give him.

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • "curadillo," and in others "troutlet;" so they asked him if he thought he could eat troutlet, for there was no other fish to give him.

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 01 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • "curadillo," and in others "troutlet;" so they asked him if he thought he could eat troutlet, for there was no other fish to give him.

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

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