Spout

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  • intransitive verb. To gush forth in a rapid stream or in spurts.
  • intransitive verb. To discharge a liquid or other substance continuously or in spurts.
  • intransitive verb. To speak in a wordy, dull, or pompous manner.
  • intransitive verb. To discharge (a flowing or spurting liquid); release.
  • intransitive verb. To utter in a wordy, dull, or pompous manner.
  • intransitive verb. To pawn.
  • noun. A tube, lip, or hole through which liquid is released or discharged.
  • noun. A continuous stream of liquid.
  • noun. The burst of spray from the blowhole of a whale.
  • noun. A pawnshop.
  • idiom. (up the spout) Pawned.
  • idiom. (up the spout) In difficulty.
  • idiom. (up the spout) Pregnant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In turpentine-making, the projection of the lower gutter beyond the center of the face. See gutter, 9.
  • noun. A narrow part of a river, with a swift current.
  • To issue with force, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; spurt: as, blood spouts from an artery.
  • To discharge a fluid in a jet or continuous stream; send out liquid as from a spout or nozle; specifically, to blow, as a whale.
  • To speak volubly and oratorically; talk or recite in a declamatory manner, especially in public: speechify.
  • To pour out in a jet and with some force; throw out as through a spout or pipe: as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
  • To cause to spurt or gush out.
  • To utter volubly or grandiloquently.
  • To pawn; pledge. See spout, n., 2.
  • To furnish or provide with a spout, in any sense: as, to spout a roof; to spout a tea-kettle.
  • noun. A pipe, tube, or trough through which a liquid is poured, and which serves to guide its flow.
  • noun. A lift or shoot in a pawnbroker's shop; hence, vulgarly, the shop itself.
  • noun. A continuous stream of fluid matter issuing, actually or seemingly, from a pipe or nozle; a jet or column, as of water.
  • noun. Specifically— A waterspout.
  • noun. The column of spray or vapor emitted from the spout-hole of a whale during the act of expiration, resembling the escape of steam from a valve.
  • noun. The spout-hole of a whale.
  • noun. A short underground passage connecting a main road with an air-head: a term used in the thick coal-workings of South Staffordshire, England.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To issue with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout.
  • intransitive verb. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  • intransitive verb. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
  • noun. 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
  • noun. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
  • noun. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
  • noun. to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. undefined
  • transitive verb. To throw out forcibly and abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet.
  • transitive verb. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  • transitive verb. To pawn; to pledge.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
  • noun. a stream of liquid
  • noun. the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale
  • verb. to gush forth in a stream
  • verb. to speak tediously
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
  • noun. an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
  • verb. talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
  • Word Usage
    "I mean, pretty much everything they spout is a lie, but they usually try to cover it a little better than this."
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    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    mouth  speak  talk  utter  verbalise  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Kraut  Redoubt  about  all-out  bout  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    nozzle  spurt  
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    verb-form
    spouted  spouting  spouts