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spout

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/spaʊt/ English

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noun

  1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.“I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”
  2. A stream of liquid.
  3. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

verb

  1. To gush forth in a jet or stream“Water spouts from a hole.”
  2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.“The whale spouted.”
  3. To speak tediously or pompously.
  4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

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