Spout

//spaʊt// noun, verb, slang

noun, verb, slang ·Very common ·Middle school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

    "I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke."

  2. 2
    an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain wordnet
  3. 3
    A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
  4. 4
    A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.

    "A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers."

  5. 5
    A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.

    "[…] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore."

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  1. 6
    A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.

    "The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up."

  2. 7
    A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).

    "He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea."

  3. 8
    The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
  4. 9
    A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off. Australia
Verb
  1. 1
    To gush forth in a jet or stream intransitive

    "Water spouts from a hole."

  2. 2
    talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner wordnet
  3. 3
    To eject water or liquid in a jet. ambitransitive

    "The whale spouted."

  4. 4
    gush forth in a sudden stream or jet wordnet
  5. 5
    To speak tediously or pompously. intransitive
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  1. 6
    To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. transitive

    "Pray, spout some French, son."

  2. 7
    To pawn; to pledge. dated, slang, transitive

    "to spout a watch"

Synonyms

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rantspurtanabasisascensionascentavenue

Antonyms

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handle

Example

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"After being on the stove for five minutes, steam started coming out the spout of the tea pot."

Etymology

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.

Related phrases

lick spoutspout offspout outup the spout

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