Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to trout
Participle: trouted
Gerund: trouting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | trout |
| you | trout |
| he;she;it | trouts |
| we | trout |
| you | trout |
| they | trout |
Perfect
| I | have trouted |
| you | have trouted |
| he;she;it | has trouted |
| we | have trouted |
| you | have trouted |
| they | have trouted |
Past
| I | trouted |
| you | trouted |
| he;she;it | trouted |
| we | trouted |
| you | trouted |
| they | trouted |
Pluperfect
| I | had trouted |
| you | had trouted |
| he;she;it | had trouted |
| we | had trouted |
| you | had trouted |
| they | had trouted |
Future
| I | will trout |
| you | will trout |
| he;she;it | will trout |
| we | will trout |
| you | will trout |
| they | will trout |
Future Perfect
| I | will have trouted |
| you | will have trouted |
| he;she;it | will have trouted |
| we | will have trouted |
| you | will have trouted |
| they | will have trouted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | trout |
| you | trout |
| he;she;it | trout |
| we | trout |
| you | trout |
| they | trout |
Perfect
| I | have trouted |
| you | have trouted |
| he;she;it | have trouted |
| we | have trouted |
| you | have trouted |
| they | have trouted |
Imperfect
| I | trouted |
| you | trouted |
| he;she;it | trouted |
| we | trouted |
| you | trouted |
| they | trouted |
Pluperfect
| I | had trouted |
| you | had trouted |
| he;she;it | had trouted |
| we | had trouted |
| you | had trouted |
| they | had trouted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would trout |
| you | would trout |
| he;she;it | would trout |
| we | would trout |
| you | would trout |
| they | would trout |
Perfect
| I | would have trouted |
| you | would have trouted |
| he;she;it | would have trouted |
| we | would have trouted |
| you | would have trouted |
| they | would have trouted |
Imperative
| you | trout |
| we | Let's trout |
| you | trout |
Verbs conjugated like 'trout'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'trout'
atrout,
grout,
rout,
strout,
tout,
troat,
trot,
troul,
bout,
brut,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English troute, troughte, trught, trouȝt, trouhte, partly from Old English truht (“trout”), and partly from Old French truite; both from Late Latin tructa, perhaps from Ancient Greek τρώκτης (trṓktēs, “nibbler”), from τρώγω (trṓgō, “to 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.
Sample Sentences
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God bless me! is it possible that you, a tall fellow with a black moustache, can be the curly fair-haired boy I have so often carried on my back and saddle-bow, and taught to make flies of red spinner and drakes’ wings, when we trouted together at Llyn Cwellyn among the hills yonder? [1871 October, James Grant, “Under the Red Dragon”, in Tinsleys’ Magazine, volume IX, chapter III (By Express), pages 251–252:]
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We found not more than three birds in any one place, and many times only one old bird, and this where we knew they had bred, for our pointer Rex found them while we were trouting. [1908 January 18, Ernest M. Gross, “The Ruffed Grouse Scarcity”, in Forest and Stream: A Journal of Outdoor Life, Travel, Nature Study, Shooting, Fishing, Yachting, volume LXX, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Forest and Stream Publishing Co., page 92, column 3:]
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He didn’t want to go out on the water. I wouldn’t say he was afraid of it, because every time he was home he was always out in the boat trouting. [1987, Douglas House, edited by Cle Newhook, But Who Cares Now? The Tragedy of the Ocean Ranger, St. John’s, Nfld.: Breakwater Books, →ISBN, page 36:]