trout n.2
1. a woman; often as old trout
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Parson’s Wedding (1664) II iii: Fare him well, easie fool, how the Trout strove to be tickl’d! | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 6 5 July 46: A two-legg’d She-Trout came and smels to his bait, but would not bite, which made the thread-man leave off his angling, and fall to tickling her [...] But for his hott venerial sinnes, / The Shee-Trowts kicks broke both his shins. | |
| She Would if She Cou’d III i: This last unlucky bus’ness has so distasted These young Trouts, they will not be so easily Tickl’d as they might have been. | |
| Table-Talk (1868) 116: I confess the Silk garter pleases more; and like Trouts we love to be tickled to death. | |
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | Order of the Beggar's Benison and Merryland (1892) 20: Dinner Sentiments [...] The Cove with the rustic primitive Wand and the Bag of Worms, gets the Trouts! | |
| ‘The Devil & Johnny Dixon’ Bentley’s Misc. Mar. 257: Magan swore she was the best-looking trout he had laid eyes on for a twelvemonth. | |
| Hillingdon Hall I 140: My niece Belinda — as neat a httle trout as ever you set eyes on. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Life in Boston & N.Y. (Boston, MA) 1 Sept. n.p.: THat white-headed, specled faced, snub-nosed, she-trout will get a kick in her seat of honor. | |
| Journal (Logan City, UT) 29 Apr. 9/1: It doesn’t matter a horseradish what an old trout like that thinks. | |
| N.Y. Amsterdam News 13 May 6B: The fresh water trout is jumping and nibbling. | |
| Queens’ Vernacular 201: trout rich, vulgar old woman in mink. | |
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 151: Women are not only characterized as land animals but as fish – trout, fish. | |
| Layer Cake 51: That chinless fuckin trout was blatantly takin the fuckin piss outta him. | |
| Man-Eating Typewriter 412: I parkered my ten-bob to the trout at the entrance. |
2. (US black) the vagina.
| Runnin’ Down Some Lines 258: trout [...] 2. Vagina. |
In compounds
(US gay) of a gay man, seeking out rich old women who offer money in return for companionship.
| Queens’ Vernacular. | |
| Wisconsin State Jrnl (Madison, WI) 8 May 1/4: Would ther lead-off story be something like ‘Trout-fishing for Gays’. |
In phrases
an older person, usu. a woman and usu. used as a pej.
| (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) II Bk IV 272: A bawdy bachelor, talking with an old trout was saying, Remember, rusty gun. I will not fail, said she, scourer. | |
| Beth Book (1898) xxxix 364: They said there was nothing but beer and sherry, and [...] they were blessed if they’d go near the old trout again . | |
| Human Touch 80: I reckon you’re only ’ere for wot you can git out of the old trout. | |
| Autobiog. of a Thief 171: You didn’t half make the old trout look small. | |
| Gloucs. Echo 12 Apr. 3/1: [cartoon caption] ‘Here comes my wife with some awful old hen.’ ‘And here comes mine — with some frightful old trout’. | |
| Horse’s Mouth (1948) 95: You couldn’t help liking the old trout. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Jimmy Brockett 21: The old trout had been in that day and the place had been cleaned out. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | Awatea (1978) 26: Save your breath, you old trout. | |
| Rum, Bum and Concertina (1978) 145: Far below us lay the Duke of York at anchor. ‘A fine life,’ said one of the old trouts. | |
| (con. 1940s) Sum of Things 460: A nice-looking girl like Harriet dead and that old trout survives! | |
| Guardian Weekend 14 Aug. 52: Piss off you old trout. | |
| Soho 94: Alex didn’t know what the old trout was rambling on about. | |
| Viva La Madness 225: Telling some old trout down the funfair you’ve been murdering people. |
SE in slang uses
In compounds
In phrases
(Irish) to be pregnant.
![[Ire]](/static/img/flags/ire.png "Ireland") | Tarry Flynn (1965) 250: Ah, a trout in the well! These things do be in it, Tarry. And worse can happen a woman. The mother was a hot piece. | |
| Slanguage. |