Definitions for spout

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IPA: /spaʊt/

Spout is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 67 anagrams from letters in spout (opstu).

Definitions for spout

noun

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

1300-50; (v.) Middle English spouten; cognate with Dutch spuiten; akin to Old Norse spȳta to spit¹; (noun) Middle English spowt(e) pipe, akin to the noun

Examples for spout

Meaning, Williams has basically previously displayed his willingness to spout government propaganda in exchange for cash.

It came out by itself, as the spout of a teapot had once come off by itself in her hand.

The spout was almost universally believed to be a sign of the apocalypse.

Emboldened by the last round of war, factions of Hamas compete for who can spout the most invective against Israel.

Its spout was torn and ragged like the mouth of a gun when a shell has burst there.

Mallyan's spout is the most imposing, having a drop of about 76 feet.

Why should it not be "up the spout," instead of in a jewel-box?

Just below the lid, and above the spout, was a hole as large as a dime.

So this meant that the solid appearance of the spout had to be an illusion.

If the spout was air and not water, then there was no necessary reason for it to be confined to seas and oceans.