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spout
noun
- 1. A projecting tube or lip, eg on a kettle, teapot, jug, fountain, etc, that allows liquid to pass through or through which it can be poured.
2. A jet or stream of liquid, eg from a fountain or the blowhole of a whale.
- Thesaurus: fountain, geyser, spray, chute.
- tr & intr
1. To flow or make something flow out in a jet or stream.
- Thesaurus: emit, squirt, erupt, spurt, discharge, surge, pour, stream.
2. To speak or say, especially at length and boringly.
- Thesaurus: pontificate, sermonize, preach, orate, rant, spiel, declaim, ramble on.
3. Said of a whale: to squirt air through a blowhole.
- Ruined or damaged beyond repair; no longer a possibility.
- Pregnant.
