spout
Other forms: spouting; spouted; spouts
A spout is the narrow opening in the edge of a container that makes it easier to neatly pour its contents. A pitcher's spout helps you direct your orange juice into your glass.
Some spouts are indentations or lips, and others — like the spout on a teapot — are tubes. Another meaning of spout is "gush suddenly in a stream." If you filled your teapot too full, tea might spout from its spout. When someone figuratively spouts, she talks in a loud, animated way. The verb form of spout came first, from a Proto-Germanic root that also spawned the Middle Dutch spoiten and the Swedish sputa, both also meaning spout.
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gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
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talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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an opening that allows the passage of liquids or graintypes:gargoylea spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animalshowerheada perforated nozzle that showers water on a bathertype of:openinga vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made
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