Advertisement
Advertisement
spout
[spout]
verb (used with object)
to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
Informal.to state or declaim volubly or in an oratorical manner.
He spouted his theories on foreign policy for the better part of the night.
verb (used without object)
to discharge, as a liquid, in a jet or continuous stream.
Synonyms: , ,to issue forth with force, as liquid or other material through a narrow orifice.
Synonyms: , ,Informal.to talk or speak at some length or in an oratorical manner.
Synonyms: , , ,
noun
a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
Synonyms: ,a trough or shoot for discharging or conveying grain, flour, etc.
a waterspout.
a continuous stream of liquid, granulated substance, etc., discharged from or as if from a pipe, tube, shoot, etc.
a spring of water.
a downpour or fall, especially of water, from a high place; waterfall.
a dumbwaiter or chute, formerly common in pawnbrokers' shops, by which articles pawned were sent to another floor for storage.
British Slang.pawnshop.
spout
/ 貹ʊ /
verb
to discharge (a liquid) in a continuous jet or in spurts, esp through a narrow gap or under pressure, or (of a liquid) to gush thus
(of a whale, etc) to discharge air through the blowhole, so that it forms a spray at the surface of the water
informalto utter (a stream of words) on a subject, often at length
noun
a tube, pipe, chute, etc, allowing the passage or pouring of liquids, grain, etc
a continuous stream or jet of liquid
short for waterspout
slang
ruined or lost
any hope of rescue is right up the spout
pregnant
Other 51Թ Forms
- spouter noun
- spoutless adjective
- spoutlike adjective
- ˈdzܳٱ noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of spout1
Idioms and Phrases
up the spout,
pawned.
in a desperate situation; beyond help.
His financial affairs are up the spout.
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Some guys are more inclined to spout off and be a little more colorful than others, and that’s their right. They won,” he said then.
The idea that anybody would want to watch four full-of-it sportswriters from four different parts of the country spout their opinions in a chase for points was outlandish from the start.
But “the whale who spouts gets harpooned,” Phillips later noted after the “Democratic machine” set out to quash his chances.
The Bayesian sank near the town of Portofino on 19 August of last year during freak weather, with reports of water spouts.
Baby food pouches are topped off with a little spout, but both the NHS and the World Health Organization say it should not be used to suck directly from the pouch.
Advertisement
Related 51Թs
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse
