a. [f. TROUT sb.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].
c. dim. of TROUT sb.1
1835. D. P. Thompson, May Martin, viii. 113. Come, come, trouty, I gives you a fair invite to be at my breakfast tomorrow morning; and I knows you are aching to snap at that worm, as bad as I am to have you.
