pourer Definition
pour
verb poured, pouring
- tr & intr
1. To flow or cause something to flow in a downward stream.
- Thesaurus: flow, run, course, gush, flood, teem, stream, cascade, deluge, tumble, discharge, exude, emit, issue, effuse, drain, spill.
2. Said of a jug, teapot, etc: to discharge (liquid) in a certain way.
- Example: doesn't pour very well
- Example: Pour me some tea
- Form: pour something out (also)
4. To rain heavily.
intr
5. To come or go in large numbers.
- Form: pour in (usually)
- Form: pour out
6. To flow or issue plentifully.
- Example: Donations poured in
- Example: Words poured from her pen
- Form: pour in (also)
- Form: pour out
noun
- Things, especially pieces of bad luck, etc, seldom come along unaccompanied by others
- Example: got the phone bill yesterday and now the gas bill ― it never rains but it pours.
- To be discouraging or deprecatory about (an idea, scheme, etc).
- To be contemptuous about it.
Phrasal Verb: pour something into something
- To invest eg money, energy, etc liberally into it.
- Example: poured all his savings into the company
- To reveal without inhibition.
- Example: poured out her feelings
