WORDLE ENGLISH
spout
spout—A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
/spaʊt/, /spʌʊt/
Origin
From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (“to spout”)), from Old Dutch *spūten, *spīuten, *spīwetten, from Proto-West Germanic *spīwattjan, from Proto-Germanic *spīwatjaną. Compare Swedish spruta (“squirt, syringe”). See also spit, spew.
noun
- A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.“I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.”“I put a spout in the maple tree to collect its sap”
- A waterspout (“channel through which water is discharged, especially from the gutters of a roof”).
- A stream or discharge of liquid, typically with some degree of force.“A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.”
- A stream of water that falls from higher to lower; a (typically thin) waterfall.“[…] the river rushes over the Auchinlilie Lin or Spout, a tremendous chataract^([sic]); after which it proceeds in a more quiet course, and is navigable to the village of Carron Shore.”“The Spout of Garnock is a wild and romantic waterfall upon that stream in the moors of Kilbirnie parish. The rock here is also porphyry. The porphyry upon the east side of the fall is much rent, and h”“[…] a streamlet made a little spout over some stones to serve me for a water-tap.”
- A similar stream or fall of earth, rock, etc.“The great spout of broken mineral, which had damned the canyon up.”“From the side of the hill … a spout of gravel was dislodged.'”
- A waterspout (“whirlwind or tornado that forms over water”).“He ought to haue expert coniecture of Stormes, Tempestes, and Spoutes: and such lyke Meteorologicall effectes, daungerous on Sea.”
- The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.
- AustraliaA hollow stump formed when a tree branch breaks off.
verb
- intransitiveTo gush forth in a jet or stream“Water spouts from a hole.”
- ambitransitiveTo eject water or liquid in a jet.“The whale spouted.”“The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.”
- intransitiveTo speak tediously or pompously.
- transitiveTo utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.“Pray, spout some French, son.”
- dated, slang, transitiveTo pawn; to pledge.“to spout a watch”
Formsspouts(plural) · spouts(present, singular, third-person) · spouting(participle, present) · spouted(participle, past) · spouted(past)
Appeared In
Daily Puzzle #1816 · June 9, 2026
Sedecordle Board 3 #52 · June 1, 2026
Sedecordle Board 11 #32 · May 12, 2026
Sedecordle Board 10 #2 · April 12, 2026
Daily Puzzle #794 · August 22, 2023
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