spout

/spaʊt//spʌʊt/

noun

  1. 1

    A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

    I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
  2. 2

    A stream of liquid.

  3. 3

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

verb

  1. 1

    To gush forth in a jet or stream

    Water spouts from a hole.
  2. 2

    To eject water or liquid in a jet.

    The whale spouted.
  3. 3

    To speak tediously or pompously.

  4. 4

    To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

  5. 5

    To pawn; to pledge.

    to spout a watch

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