English Explanatory Dictionary

spout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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.

Pronunciation

/spaʊt/ /spʌʊt/ En-au-spout.ogg

Word forms

spout spouts spouting spouted

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.

Derived words

aspout bespout downspout landspout lick spout outspout rainspout sandspout spouter spoutfish spouthole spoutless spoutlike sputter upspout up the spout waterspout spout off spout out
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