spout

Plural: spouts

Noun

• an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
• 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.
• A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
• The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
• A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

Verb

Verb Forms: spouted, spouting, spouts

• To eject liquid or words forcefully in a stream.
• gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
• talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
• To gush forth in a jet or stream
• To eject water or liquid in a jet.
• To speak tediously or pompously.
• To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
• To pawn; to pledge.

Examples

• He began to spout excuses for his low score, but his opponent just smiled.
• I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
• The whale spouted.
• to spout a watch
• Water spouts from a hole.

Synonyms

gush, jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave, spirt, spurt

Anagrams of spout