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troutful en · ADJ

Etymology

From trout + -ful.

Meanings

1. Of a body of water: well stocked with trout.
   • I sit, as I write, beside the very troutful River Test, and on a stretch of it perhaps troutful above all others. 1925, Horatio Gordon Hutchinson, A Fellowship of Anglers: With 19 Illustrations, page 99:
   • The stream had been described 30 years before as "a once troutful tributary." Perhaps it was now less troutful, its trout smaller. But to me it teemed, and its inhabitants were leviathans. 1970, Country Life, volume 148, page 236:

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