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spout
[spout] 
–verb (used with object)
| 1. | to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet. |
| 2. | 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)
| 3. | to discharge, as a liquid, in a jet or continuous stream. |
| 4. | to issue forth with force, as liquid or other material through a narrow orifice. |
| 5. | Informal. to talk or speak at some length or in an oratorical manner. |
–noun
—Idiom| 6. | a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed. |
| 7. | a trough or shoot for discharging or conveying grain, flour, etc. |
| 8. | a waterspout. |
| 9. | a continuous stream of liquid, granulated substance, etc., discharged from or as if from a pipe, tube, shoot, etc. |
| 10. | a spring of water. |
| 11. | a downpour or fall, esp. of water, from a high place; waterfall. |
| 12. | a dumbwaiter or chute, formerly common in pawnbrokers' shops, by which articles pawned were sent to another floor for storage. |
| 13. | British Slang. pawnshop. |
| 14. | up the spout, British Slang.
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| spout (spout) v. spout·ed, spout·ing, spouts v. intr.
[Middle English spouten, ultimately of imitative origin.] spout'er n. |
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Spout
Spout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spouting.] [Cf. Sw. sputa, spruta, to spout, D. spuit a spout, spuiten to spout, and E. spurt, sprit, v., sprout, sputter; or perhaps akin to E. spit to eject from the mouth.]1. To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee? --Chaucer. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. --Creech. 2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. Pray, spout some French, son. --Beau. & Fl. 3. To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch. [Cant]Spout
Spout\, v. i. 1. To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery. All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. --Thomson. 2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. 3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.Spout
Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t.]1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. --Addison. "A conduit with three issuing spouts." --Shak. In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. --Pope. 2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle. 3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant]
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Language Translation for : spout
Italian:
scaturire, sgorgare,
German:
herausspritzen,
Japanese:
吹き出す
spout (v.)
c.1330, related to M.Du. spoiten "to spout," N.Fris. spütji "spout, squirt," Swed. sputa "to spout," and probably M.Du. spuwen "to spit" (see spew). Meaning "to talk, declaim" is recorded from 1612. The noun is first recorded 1392. It was the slang term for the lift in a pawnbroker's shop, up which articles were taken for storage, hence fig. phrase up the spout "lost, hopeless, gone beyond recall" (1812).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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