Meaning

5 senses

  1. (intransitive)To gush forth in a jet or stream

    Water spouts from a hole.

    speien, spritzen, herausspritzen

    струи́тьсяstruítʹsja, бры́згатьbrýzgatʹ, бить струёйbitʹ strujój

    gush forth in a sudden stream or jet

  2. (ambitransitive)To eject water or liquid in a jet.

    The whale spouted.

  3. (intransitive)To speak tediously or pompously.

    palavern, quatschen, von sich geben

    разглаго́льствоватьrazglagólʹstvovatʹ

  4. (transitive)To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

  5. (dated, slang, transitive)To pawn; to pledge.

    to spout a watch

Examples

24 sentences

  1. Water spouted from the broken faucet.

    Вода сікла зі зламаного вентиля. — uaspeaker

    ruВода хлестала из сломанного вентиля. — Hellerick

    deWasser strömte aus dem kaputten Wasserhahn hervor. — xtofu80

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  2. Water spouted from the broken tap.

    Вода сікла зі зламаного вентиля. — uaspeaker

    ruВода хлестала из сломанного вентиля. — Hellerick

    deWasser strömte aus dem kaputten Wasserhahn hervor. — xtofu80

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  3. The spider went up the spout.

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  4. He loves to spout off trivia.

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  5. You must replace the cracked faucet spout.

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 2
to gush forth in a stream:
to speak tediously and at length:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
to gush forth in a stream:
to speak tediously and at length:

Origin

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spou

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.

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Forms

spouts, spouting, spouted, spouted
Base formspout · to spout
3rd person singularspouts
Present participlespouting
Past simplespouted
Past participlespouted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyspout
he, she, itspouts

Past simpleLesson

all personsspouted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave spouted
he, she, ithas spouted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill spout

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

3 related words
Relatedspouter
Derivedspout offspout out

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
spottyspousesprainsprat

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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