Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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 Chiefly British 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 Chiefly British A pawnshop.
- idiom (up the spout) Pawned.
- idiom (up the spout) In difficulty.
- idiom (up the spout) Pregnant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from 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 [Cant] to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the
spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. - 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 Cant To pawn; to pledge.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
tube orlip through whichliquid ispoured ordischarged - noun a
stream of liquid - noun the
mixture ofair andwater thrown up from theblowhole of awhale - verb to
gush forth in astream - verb to
speak tediously
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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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Let Griffin spout his bile on Question Time, or wherever.
Archive 2009-06-01 Dungeekin 2009
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Let Griffin spout his bile on Question Time, or wherever.
Laughter Is The Best Medicine Dungeekin 2009
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The water was gushing like a waterfall during spring melt runoff, out of the spout from the roof.
And then a Rain Came Will 2009
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Of all my rifles, the one with the most ammo up its spout is a Kenny Jarrett .30/06 built on a Model 700 action.
.270 vs. 2007
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All you spout is liberal economics, radical theology, and perverted pseudo-science.
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June 6th, 2006 at 8: 15 pm ralph magutzup says: let hin spout off – hi ass will be grass next election and he will have time to investigate his families flaws … … … … … ..
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Not just her tail was sparkle like a drop from fountain spout – all of her was jewel.
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I too was very upset with Brian Kilmeade because I think that the press has a duty to allow yahoos like Levin spout through their talking points BEFORE they shoot them down.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Sen. Levin and Fox Anchor in On-Air Scuffle Over Iraq Plan 2006
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I don't know if there was a rain spout or not, but it did rain real hard and there was so much rain that there was some mud over some of the roads.
bilby commented on the word spout
Etymology online:
spout (n.)
late 14c., from spout (v.). Cognate with Middle Dutch spoit, North Frisian spütj. It was the slang term for the lift in a pawnbroker's shop, the device which took up articles for storage, hence figurative phrase up the spout "lost, hopeless, gone beyond recall" (1812).
May 5, 2018