troutling
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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, 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 […]"
- "‘[…] 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."
- "They winnowed the creek with basketwork weirs for every finger-long troutling that came down in it,"
- "‘[…] Did this Choxy do anything else, except look at you like a pike at a troutling?’"