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spout en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /spʌʊt/ (Canada)
• /spaʊt/

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
   • I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
   • I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap
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.
   • A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers. 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood, page 160:
4. A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.
   • […] you can follow a footpath from the fine Victorian Mallyan Spout Hotel to the national park's most famous waterfalls – the 80ft-high Mallyan Spout. When you get to the beck, turn left, and the waterfall is a couple of hundred yards along the bank; it can be wet underfoot[…] 2015 April 1, Jos Simon, The Rough Guide to Yorkshire, Rough Guides UK, →ISBN, page 245:
   • The Spout of Garnock is a wild and romantic waterfall upon that stream in the moors of Kilbirnie parish. The rock here is also porphyry. The porphyry upon the east side of the fall is much rent, and has fallen forward[…] 1839, Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, Prize-essays and Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 434:
   • […] a streamlet made a little spout over some stones to serve me for a water-tap. 1895, Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage: Travels with a Donkey [in the Cévennes], page 219:
   • […] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore. 1805, Robert Forsyth, The Beauties of Scotland: Containing a Clear and Full Account of the Agriculture, Commerce, Mines, and Manufactures; of the Population, Cities, Towns, Villages, &c. of Each County ..., page 388:
5. A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.
   • The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up. 1883, The Silverado Squatters, Stevenson, section 234:
   • From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.' 1883, Stevenson, Treasure Island, xv
6. A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).
   • He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea. 2020 [1570], John Dee, The Mathematicall Praeface to Elements of Geometrie of Euclid of Megara, →ISBN, page 69:
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.

Forms

Coordinates

nozzle (tube through which liquid is discharged)

Deriveds

aspout · bespout · up the spout · upspout · spoutlike · rainspout · spoutfish · spouter · outspout · sandspout · landspout · spoutless · downspout · spouthole · lick spout · sea spout · sputter · waterspout

Translations (102)

es pico (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pt jorro (a stream of liquid) · fr souffle (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · ja 噴射 (a stream of liquid) · az lülə (a stream of liquid) · de Ausgussschnabel (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · sv tut (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ru но́сик (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fo tútur (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Ausgießer (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · bg сътуя (a stream of liquid) · sv stråle (a stream of liquid) · de Ausgießtülle (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fi kaatonokka (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Spritzer (a stream of liquid) · ru струя́ (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · mi ngutu (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fi vesisuihku (a stream of liquid) · de Strom (a stream of liquid) · haw nuku (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cs hubička (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pt borrifo (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · ba һемәк (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pt biqueira (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ru струя́ (a stream of liquid) · it beccuccio (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ro gurgui (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ca brollador (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · fr bec verseur (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fa چرنه (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · hu kifolyócső (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fi vesipatsas (a stream of liquid) · fi nokka (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · nl tuit (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ja 噴出口 (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ms muncung (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · mi kōrere (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ru фонта́н (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · de Ausfluss (a stream of liquid) · de Auslauf (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · hy ծորակ (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cs výpust (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · bg чучур (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cs proud (a stream of liquid) · fr jet (a stream of liquid) · sv snip (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fa نول (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Schnauze (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Fluss (a stream of liquid) · de Tülle (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · gl cano (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · la canālis (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cmn 噴射 /喷射 (a stream of liquid) · mi puahiritanga (a stream of liquid) · pl strumień (a stream of liquid) · rar ngutu (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · tr uç (of a teapot) (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Auslaufrohr (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · hy քիթ (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fi suihku (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · ms cerat (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · az lülə (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ca raig (a stream of liquid) · gl bico (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Flüssigkeitsstrom (a stream of liquid) · de Fontäne (a stream of liquid) · az lülək (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · sv pip (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cs odtok (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ca broc (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · hu kifolyó (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · es chorro (a stream of liquid) · ru го́рлышко (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · es pitorro (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · es boquilla (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fi suihku (a stream of liquid) · tr masura (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Ausgusstülle (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Blas (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · pl wylew (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Schnabel (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Wasserspeier (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pt bico (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · de Atemloch (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pt bica (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pl fontanna (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · mi pupuha (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · de Schnaupe (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cs výtrysk (kapaliny) (a stream of liquid) · pl dzióbek (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · es chorro (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · de Ausguss (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · cmn 嘴子 (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · pl struga (a stream of liquid) · gl torno (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · ru пото́к (a stream of liquid) · ota ماسوره (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · gl biqueira (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged) · fi vesisuihku (the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale) · it getto (a stream of liquid) · de Auslauf (a stream of liquid) · cs hubice (a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged)

spout en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Australia) audio
• /spʌʊt/ (Canada)
• /spaʊt/

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
   • Water spouts from a hole.
2. (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
   • The mighty whale […] spouts the tide. 1697, Thomas Creech, The Whale:
   • The whale spouted.
3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
   • Pray, spout some French, son. c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv:
5. (dated, slang, transitive) To pawn; to pledge.
   • to spout a watch

Forms

Deriveds

spout out · spout off

Translations (60)

de spritzen (to gush forth in a stream) · nl spuiten (to gush forth in a stream) · pl chlusnąć (to gush forth in a stream) · fr palabrer (to speak tediously and at length) · ota پوسكورمك (to gush forth in a stream) · es perorar (to speak tediously and at length) · it sgorgare (to gush forth in a stream) · bg бликам (to gush forth in a stream) · de palavern (to speak tediously and at length) · ru бить струёй (to gush forth in a stream) · ru заби́ть струёй (to gush forth in a stream) · ms pancut (to gush forth in a stream) · bg шуртя (to gush forth in a stream) · gl parolar (to speak tediously and at length) · pt jorrar (to gush forth in a stream) · bg ораторствам (to speak tediously and at length) · fi suihkuttaa (to gush forth in a stream) · cs mlít (to speak tediously and at length) · de quatschen (to speak tediously and at length) · ru разглаго́льствовать (to speak tediously and at length) · de von sich geben (to speak tediously and at length) · ru хлы́нуть (to gush forth in a stream) · ja 噴き出す (to gush forth in a stream) · mi pipiha (to gush forth in a stream) · pl rozgadać się (to speak tediously and at length) · pl trysnąć (to gush forth in a stream) · fr jaillir (to gush forth in a stream) · pl wygłosić (to speak tediously and at length) · pl rozgadywać się (to speak tediously and at length) · pl lać się (to gush forth in a stream) · tr püskürmek (to gush forth in a stream) · gl arreitar (to gush forth in a stream) · cs žvanit (to speak tediously and at length) · fi syöstä (to gush forth in a stream) · ja 噴く (to gush forth in a stream) · qu ch'iwkachiy (to gush forth in a stream) · ru выбра́сывать струёй (to gush forth in a stream) · cs stříkat (to gush forth in a stream) · it zampillare (to gush forth in a stream) · fi paasata (to speak tediously and at length) · pl chlustać (to gush forth in a stream) · cmn 噴出 /喷出 (to gush forth in a stream) · ru вы́бросить струёй (to gush forth in a stream) · is spúa (to gush forth in a stream) · es chorrear (to gush forth in a stream) · cmn 噴放 /喷放 (to gush forth in a stream) · pl rozwodzić się (to speak tediously and at length) · ru струи́ться (to gush forth in a stream) · cmn 噴 /喷 (to gush forth in a stream) · de speien (to gush forth in a stream) · pl wygłaszać (to speak tediously and at length) · qu pukyuy (to gush forth in a stream) · ms cerat (to gush forth in a stream) · cs kecat (to speak tediously and at length) · de herausspritzen (to gush forth in a stream) · ru бры́згать (to gush forth in a stream) · cs prýštit (to gush forth in a stream) · pl tryskać (to gush forth in a stream) · fi jaaritella (to speak tediously and at length) · cs chrlit (to gush forth in a stream)