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.
