troutling

English

Etymology

trout +‎ -ling

Noun

troutling (plural troutlings)

1. 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,^[1]

     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^[2], 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^[3], 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,^[4]

     ‘ […] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’

Synonyms

• troutlet

Translations

young trout

• Esperanto: trutido
• French: truitelle (fr) f