Spout vs. Squirt
Spoutnoun
A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
‘I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.’;
Squirtnoun
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
Spoutnoun
A stream of liquid.
Squirtnoun
A small, quick stream; a jet.
Spoutnoun
The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
Squirtnoun
(hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
Spoutverb
(intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
‘Water spouts from a hole.’;
Squirtnoun
A burst of noise.
Spoutverb
(ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
‘The whale spouted.’;
Squirtnoun
(slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
Spoutverb
(intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
Squirtnoun
A small child.
‘Hey squirt! Where you been?’;
Spoutverb
(transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Squirtnoun
Female ejaculate.
Spoutverb
To pawn; to pledge.
‘to spout a watch’;
Squirtverb
To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
‘The toothpaste squirted from the tube.’;
Spoutverb
To throw out forcibly and abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
‘Who kept Jonas in the fish's mawTill he was spouted up at Ninivee?’; ‘Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide.’;
Squirtverb
To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
Spoutverb
To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
‘Pray, spout some French, son.’;
Squirtverb
(transitive) To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
Spoutverb
To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch.
Squirtverb
To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
Spoutverb
To issue 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 hillIs bright with spouting rills.’;
Squirtverb
To ejaculate.
Spoutverb
To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Squirtverb
To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
‘The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.’;
Spoutverb
To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Squirtverb
To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; - said of liquids.
Spoutnoun
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.
‘In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head.’; ‘From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.’;
Squirtverb
Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
Spoutnoun
A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
Squirtnoun
An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
Spoutnoun
A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Squirtnoun
A small, quick stream; a jet.
Spoutnoun
an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
Squirtnoun
The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
Spoutverb
gush forth in a sudden stream or jet;
‘water gushed forth’;
Squirtnoun
a youngster.
Spoutverb
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
Squirtnoun
a short, overly assertive, or impudent person, especially when young; - used in contempt.
Squirtnoun
someone who is small and insignificant
Squirtnoun
the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
Squirtverb
cause to come out in a squirt;
‘the boy squirted water at his little sister’;
Squirtverb
wet with a spurt of liquid;
‘spurt the wall with water’;
