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English
Etymology
From trout + -ling.
Noun
troutling (plural troutlings)
- 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
1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 20, in The House by the Churchyard, London: Macmillan, published 1899, page 95:‘ […] 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.
1904, Mary Hunter Austin, The Basket Woman, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, page 27:They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,
- 2012, Simon Brett, Blotto, Twinks and the Bootlegger’s Moll, New York: Felony & Mayhem Press, 2014, Chapter 15, p. 110,
- ‘ Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’
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