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Grammar : Verb

Spell : skwurt

Phonetic Transcription : skwɜrt

Definition of squirt

Origin : mid-15c., squyrten "eject water in a jet," of uncertain origin, probably imitative. Related: Squirted; squirting.

verb squeeze out liquid

Example sentences :

Thank you, Boy, for not letting them squirt water on my dolly's clean dress.
Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole

As well might Hercules have attempted to tidy up the Augean stables with a squirt.
Extract from : « Diary of a Pilgrimage » by Jerome K. Jerome

I charged the squirt and let fly, and again, and again, as quick as I could fill it.
Extract from : « The Five Jars » by Montague Rhodes James

I know what you are thinking—you're thinking this is a squirt.
Extract from : « The Poet at the Breakfast Table » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

And if I were you, I'd take a light garden-engine, full of water, to squirt at the enemy.
Extract from : « Prince Prigio » by Andrew Lang

Some elephants would have done worse than just to squirt water on you.
Extract from : « Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant » by Richard Barnum

So the crew continued to squirt water, though most of it did little good.
Extract from : « The Motor Boys Overland » by Clarence Young

They squirt venom from the attic into the gutter, and nobody is ever hurt.
Extract from : « The Hypocrite » by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull

However, not one of them moved him so much as to fetch one squirt of tobacco-juice.
Extract from : « The Maid of Sker » by Richard Doddridge Blackmore

The first squirt of the haggis is always the hottest, as the other man said.
Extract from : « The Shoes of Fortune » by Neil Munro

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