Definitions for spouted

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spouted spout·ed

Spelling: [spou-tid]

IPA: /ˈspaʊ tɪd/

Spouted is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in spouted (deopstu).

Definitions for spouted

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:

adjective

1. fitted with a spout:

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 spouted

First recorded in 1825-35; spout + -ed³

Examples for spouted

Adam opened his mouth to squall and it spouted meal like a whale.

Then the mud, the lava, the volcanic stones, all spouted forth in a torrent.

I call ye assassins of as good a fellow as ever spouted up his ghost.

It spouted a flash of bluish flame, and then another and another.

It was guarded by a dragon who spouted water which dispersed in a fine mist.

Such despicable nonsense is spouted for one reason: to dehumanize Palestinians.

Upstairs in the galleries, Jim Costanzo spouted lefty politics between tunes on his baritone bugle.

As a TV gal who has reported and anchored and spouted opinions from news sets across the country, Google Hangout felt pretty real.

We kidnapped the Africans all day and spouted Islamism all night!

But in the same interview, he spouted the same old sexist line against female priests.