1 [C] a pipe or tube on a container, that you can pour liquid out through:
the spout of a teapot
2 a stream of liquid coming out of somewhere with great force
IDIOMS
be / go up the spout (BrE, slang) to be/go wrong; to be spoilt or not working:
Well, that's my holiday plans gone up the spout!
Part of speech: verb
1 to send out sth, especially a liquid, in a stream with great force; to come out of sth in this way:
[VN] The wound was still spouting blood. * The geyser spouted huge columns of water from the ground. * [V+adv./prep.] Clear water spouted from the fountains.
2 [V] (of a WHALE) to send out a stream of water from a hole in its head
3 ~ (off / on) (about sth) (informal, disapproving) to speak a lot about sth; to repeat sth in a boring or annoying way:
[V] He's always spouting off about being a vegetarian. * What are you spouting on about now? * [VN] He could spout poetry for hours. * She could do nothing but spout insults. * The article was full of the usual cliches spouted by fashion editors.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for spout is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is spout a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, spout is tagged as noun.
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