spout

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), of imitative origin. Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe. See also spit, spew.

• IPA^(key): /spaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /spʌʊt/

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• Rhymes: -aʊt

spout (plural spouts)

1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
   

   I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.

2. A stream of liquid.
   • 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood (page 160)

     A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.

3. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

• (tube through which liquid is discharged): nozzle

spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)

1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream

   Water spouts from a hole.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.

   The whale spouted.

   • Creech

     The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.

3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Pray, spout some French, son.

5. (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.

   to spout a watch

• POTUS, USPTO, pouts, stoup, tupos, upsot