Meaning

5 senses
  1. Anything that spouts.

  2. Someone who rants or talks nonsense at length.

    a spouter of hateful rhetoric

  3. (historical)A vessel used in whaling.

  4. A vessel used in whaling.

    (historical, rare)A person engaged in whaling; a skillful whaler.

  5. (archaic)A whale that breathes by spouting; especially a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

    a spouting whale

Origin

From spout + -er.

From spout + -er.

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Forms

plural: spouters
Singularspouter
Pluralspouters

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedspout

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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