spout
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/spaʊt/
English
Definitions
noun
- A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.“I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”
- A stream of liquid.
- The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
verb
- To gush forth in a jet or stream“Water spouts from a hole.”
- To eject water or liquid in a jet.“The whale spouted.”
- To speak tediously or pompously.
- To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.