SPOUT


Meaning of SPOUT in English

n. 25B6; verb

lava was spouting from the crater : SPURT, gush, spew, erupt, shoot, squirt, spray; disgorge, discharge, emit, belch forth.

he spouts on foreign affairs : HOLD FORTH, sound off, go on, talk at length, expatiate; informal mouth off, speechify, spiel.

25B6; noun a can with a spout : NOZZLE, lip, rose.

25A0; up the spout (Brit. informal)

my computer's up the spout. : See broken sense 3.

his daughter's up the spout. : See pregnant sense 1.

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