Definitions for spouting

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spouting spout·ing

Spelling: [spou-ting]

IPA: /ˈspaʊ tɪŋ/

Spouting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 320 anagrams from letters in spouting (ginopstu).

Definitions for spouting

noun

1. guttering (defs 1–3).
2. a pipe, tube, or liplike projection through or by which a liquid is discharged, poured, or conveyed.
3. a trough or shoot for discharging or conveying grain, flour, etc.
4. a waterspout.
5. a continuous stream of liquid, granulated substance, etc., discharged from or as if from a pipe, tube, shoot, etc.
6. a spring of water.
7. a downpour or fall, especially of water, from a high place; waterfall.
8. a dumbwaiter or chute, formerly common in pawnbrokers' shops, by which articles pawned were sent to another floor for storage.
9. British Slang. pawnshop.

Idioms

1. up the spout, British Slang. pawned. in a desperate situation; beyond help:

verb (used with object)

1. to emit or discharge forcibly (a liquid, granulated substance, etc.) in a stream or jet.
2. Informal. to state or declaim volubly or in an oratorical manner:

verb (used without object)

1. to discharge, as a liquid, in a jet or continuous stream.
2. to issue forth with force, as liquid or other material through a narrow orifice.
3. Informal. to talk or speak at some length or in an oratorical manner.

Origin of spouting

First recorded in 1870-75; spout + -ing¹

Examples for spouting

spouting off against police online has become criminalized in recent weeks.

No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.

And to let you comprehend whether you are heir to that civilization or spouting hot air about it.

One of them, Steamboat Spring, was spouting at regular intervals as we passed.

He had seen one spouting fire as he had voyaged on the pirate ship.

In the meantime, Welby is not, at least, spouting ugly bigotry.

Never mind whatever podcast, Vine, Tumblr, talk radio host or triple-digit cable network is spouting off about at the moment.

They have all been at work like her, spouting ashes and pumice and rocks and lava.

Upon the rug itself a stream of blood was spouting out of the air.

The thought set the geyser of his rage roaring and spouting in the face of heaven.