Spout Definition
spout
spouted, spouting, spouts
verb
spouted, spouting, spouts
To shoot out (liquid, etc.) from or as from a spout.
Webster's New World
To gush forth in a rapid stream or in spurts.
Water spouted from the faucet.
American Heritage
To flow or shoot out with force in a jet.
Webster's New World
To discharge a liquid or other substance continuously or in spurts.
Whales spouting offshore.
American Heritage
To speak or utter in a loud, pompous manner or in a ready, rapid flow of words.
Webster's New World
noun
spouts
A lip, orifice, or projecting tube, as on a teapot, in a drinking fountain, etc., by which a liquid is poured or discharged.
Webster's New World
A chute for conveying substances, as grain or flour, or articles.
Webster's New World
A stream, jet, or discharge of or as of liquid from a spout.
Webster's New World
A pawnshop.
Webster's New World
The stream of air and water rising from the blowhole of a whale.
Webster's New World
idiom
up the spout
- Pawned.
- In difficulty.
American Heritage
spout off
- to spout words in a way that is hasty, irresponsible, etc.
Webster's New World
up the spout
- bankrupt; ruined
- pregnant
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Spout
Noun
Singular:
spout
Plural:
spoutsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Spout
Origin of Spout
Middle English spouten ultimately of imitative origin
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe.
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