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Antonyms for spout

Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : spaÊŠt

Definition of spout

Origin :
  • early 14c., related to Middle Dutch spoiten "to spout," North Frisian spütji "spout, squirt," Swedish sputa "to spout," and probably Middle Dutch spuwen "to spit" (see spew). Meaning "to talk, declaim" is recorded from 1610s.
  • verb spurt, emit
  • verb talk forcefully
Example sentences :
  • Mallyan's Spout is the most imposing, having a drop of about 76 feet.
  • Extract from : « Yorkshire Painted And Described » by Gordon Home
  • Its spout was torn and ragged like the mouth of a gun when a shell has burst there.
  • Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Why should it not be "up the spout," instead of in a jewel-box?
  • Extract from : « The Lightning Conductor Discovers America » by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
  • Just below the lid, and above the spout, was a hole as large as a dime.
  • Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler
  • It came out by itself, as the spout of a teapot had once come off by itself in her hand.
  • Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
  • After you pump water up, it flows down into your pail from the spout of the pump.
  • Extract from : « Common Science » by Carleton W. Washburne
  • Glory of Pat, to spout, to struggle, right Ireland's old wrong!
  • Extract from : « Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, March 4, 1893 » by Various
  • When the snow had melted she put the water in a coffee kettle that had a spout.
  • Extract from : « The Land of the Long Night » by Paul du Chaillu
  • Then he looked at the pump and he gave it a whack and he kicked at the spout and said "Shucks!"
  • Extract from : « Rippling Rhymes » by Walt Mason
  • I don't see a sign of a' inscription on this—an' what is this paper in the spout?
  • Extract from : « Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches » by Ruth McEnery Stuart

Synonyms for spout

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