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SPOUT
spout
(noun) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
rant, mouth off, jabber, spout, rabbit on, rave
(verb) talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
spurt, spirt, gush, spout
(verb) gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; “water gushed forth”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
spout (plural spouts)
A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
A stream of liquid.
The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
Coordinate terms
• (tube through which liquid is discharged): nozzle
Verb
spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)
(intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
(ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
(intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
(transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
(transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
Anagrams
• POTUS, USPTO, pouts, stoup, tupos, upsot
Source: Wiktionary
Spout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spouting.] Etym: [Cf. Sw. sputa, spruta, to spout, D. spuit a spout, spuiten to spout, and E. spurt, sprit, v., sprout, sputter; or perhaps akin to E. spit to eject from the mouth.]
1. To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee Chaucer. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. Creech.
2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. & Fl.
3. To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch. [Cant]
Spout, v. i.
1. To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery. All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. Thomson.
2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout, n. Etym: [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t.]
1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. Addison. "A conduit with three issuing spouts." Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope.
2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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