spout

Meaning

Noun

1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
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. (Australia) A hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
2. (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
5. (dated, slang, transitive) To pawn; to pledge.

Synonyms

gush

spurt

jet

nozzle

spray

squirt

shoot

gutter

gush out

flow

stream

mouth

mouth off

mouthpiece

erupt

waterspout

emit

rant

eject

rave

spirt

sprinkle

downspout

discharge

rainspout

gush forth

exude

water gate

throw out

beak

burst into laughter

water trough

blow

jabber

chute

spew

spit

rabbit on

outfall

sluice

outlet

bill

fountain

⛲

pipe

flume

flue

fire

🔥

coulisse

bud

fipple

Translations

jaillir

Tülle

pico

brotar

jorrar

Ausguß

beccuccio

tuit

bec

chorrear

sgorgare

sprizzare

getto

Schnabel

Ausguss

Pronounced as (IPA)

/spaʊt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: spouten

Cognate with Dutch: spuiten

Cognate with Swedish: spruta

In summary

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.