spout

Meanings

Noun

• A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged. thumb
• A stream of liquid.
• 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

• 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.

Origin

• From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten ("to spout")), from *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe. See also spit, spew.