spout

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /spaʊt/ (Canada) IPA(key): /spʌʊt/ Rhymes: -aʊt === Noun === spout (plural spouts) A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”). A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc. 1883, Stevenson, Treasure Island, xv: From the side of the hill [...] a spout of gravel was dislodged.' A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”). The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale. (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off. ==== Coordinate terms ==== (tube through which liquid is discharged): nozzle ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted) (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === POTUS, Toups, USPTO, pouts, putos, stoup, tupos, upsot