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squirt

  [skwurt]
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–verb (used without object)
1. to eject liquid in a jet from a narrow orifice: The hose squirted all over us.
2. to eject a spurt of liquid: The lemon squirted in my eye.
–verb (used with object)
3. to cause (liquid or a viscous substance) to spurt or issue in a jet, as from a narrow orifice: Squirt the water over that way!
4. to wet or bespatter with a liquid or viscous substance so ejected: to squirt someone with a hose.
–noun
5. the act of squirting.
6. a spurt or jetlike stream, as of water.
7. a small quantity of liquid or viscous substance squirted: Put a squirt of chocolate sauce on my ice cream.
8. Informal.
a. a youngster, esp. a meddlesome or impudent one.
b. a short person.
c. an insignificant, self-assertive person, esp. one who is small or young.
9. an instrument for squirting, as a syringe.
10. Usually, squirts. Dialect. diarrhea.
Origin:
1425–75; (v.) late ME squirten, appar. var. of swirten; c. LG swirtjen in same sense; perh. akin to swirl; (n.) late ME sqwyrt diarrhea, deriv. of the v.

Related forms:
squirter, noun
squirt⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
6. jet, spray, stream.
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squirt   (skwûrt)   
v.   squirt·ed, squirt·ing, squirts

v.   intr.

  1. To issue forth in a thin forceful stream or jet; spurt.

  2. To eject liquid in a jet.

v.   tr.

  1. To eject (liquid) forcibly in a thin stream from a narrow opening.

  2. To wet with a spurt of liquid.

n.  

  1. The act of squirting.

  2. An instrument, such as a syringe, used for squirting.

  3. A squirted jet of liquid.

  4. Slang

    1. A small or young person.

    2. An insignificant or contemptible person.


[Middle English squirten, possibly of Middle Dutch or Middle Low German origin; akin to Low German swirtjen.]
squirt'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
squirt

  1. n.
    a small person; a young child, especially a young boy. (Also a term of address.) : Hey, squirt, come over here.
  2. n.
    beer or champagne. : How about a nice bubbly glass of squirt?
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

squirt 
1460, squyrten "eject water in a jet," of uncertain origin, probably imitative. The noun is first recorded c.1460, originally "diarrhea;" meaning "a whipper-snapper" is from 1839.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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