spout

/spaʊt/

/spaʊt/

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.

Definitions of spout

1. verb

   gush forth in a sudden stream or jet
   synonyms: gush, spirt, spurt

   types:

   pump

   flow intermittently

   blow

   spout moist air from the blowhole

   whoosh

   gush or squirt out

   type of:

   pour

   flow in a spurt
2. verb

   talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
   synonyms: jabber, mouth off, rabbit on, rant, rave

   type of:

   mouth, speak, talk, utter, verbalise, verbalize

   express in speech
3. noun

   an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
   types:

   gargoyle

   a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure of a person or animal

   nose, nozzle

   a projecting spout from which a fluid is discharged

   showerhead

   a perforated nozzle that showers water on a bather

   type of:

   opening

   a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made