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spout

Pronunciation: /spaʊt/

The English word “spout” has 13 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
  2. A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
  3. A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.
  4. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
  5. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
  6. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
  7. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
  8. A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

verb

  1. To gush forth in a jet or stream
  2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  3. To speak tediously or pompously.
  4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  5. To pawn; to pledge.

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.

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