spout

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /spaʊt/
• Rhymes: -aʊt

Etymology

Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe.

Noun

spout (plural spouts)

1. a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged

   I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.

2. a stream of liquid
3. the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale

Translations

a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 嘴子 (cmn) (zuǐzi)

• Finnish: nokka (fi), kaatonokka (fi)
• French: siphon (fr) m, bec verseur (fr) m
• German: Tülle (de) f
• Italian: beccuccio (it) m

• Japanese: 噴出口 (ja) (ふんしゅつぐち, funshutsuguchi)
• Latin: canālis (la) m
• Maori: kōrere (mi)
• Russian: носик (ru) (nósik) m, горлышко (ru) (górlyško) n (of a bottle)
• Spanish: pico (es) m (vessel)
• Swedish: pip (sv) c, hällpip (sv) c

a stream of liquid

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴射 (cmn), 喷射 (cmn) (pēnshè)

• Finnish: suihku (fi), vesipatsas (fi), vesisuihku (fi)

• Italian: getto (it) m
• Japanese: 噴射 (ja) (ふんしゃ, funsha)
• Russian: струя (ru) (strujá) f, поток (ru) (potók) m
• Spanish: chorro (es) m

the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale

• Finnish: suihku (fi), vesisuihku (fi)
• Maori: pupuha (mi)

• Russian: фонтан (ru) (fontán) m (у кита́), струя (ru) (strujá)
• Spanish: chorro (es) m

Verb

spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)

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

   Water spouts from a hole.

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

   The whale spouted.

3. To speak tediously or pompously.

Translations

to gush forth in a stream

• Finnish: suihkuttaa (fi), syöstä (fi)
• Icelandic: spúa (is)
• Italian: sgorgare (it), zampillare (it)

• Quechua: ch'iwkachiy (qu)
• Russian: струиться (ru) (struítʹsja) impf.

to speak tediously and at length

• Finnish: paasata (fi), jaaritella (fi)

• Russian: разглагольствовать (ru) (razglagólʹstvovatʹ) impf.

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