▪ I. trouty, n.
see after trout n.1
▪ II. trouty, a.
(ˈtraʊtɪ)
[f. trout n.1 + -y.]
Full of, abounding in, or containing trout.
| 1676 Cotton Walton's Angler ii. ii. 17 Little inconsiderable Rivers, as Awber, Eroways, and the like, scarce worth naming, but Trouty too. 1831 Blackw. Mag. XXX. 965 Heavens! among the gravel what a trouty congregation! 1883 Stevenson Across the Plains i. (1892) 74 Every trouty pool along that mountain river. |
b. Speckled like a trout.
| 1895 [implied in troutiness]. |