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spout.

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

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/spaʊt//spʌʊt/Canada

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

    I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
    I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap

  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.

    Australia
Where this word comes from

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.

verb/spaʊt//spʌʊt/Canada

  1. To gush forth in a jet or stream

    intransitive
    Water spouts from a hole.

  2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.

    ambitransitive
    The whale spouted.

  3. To speak tediously or pompously.

    intransitive

  4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

    transitive

  5. To pawn; to pledge.

    dated · slang · transitive
    to spout a watch
Where this word comes from

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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