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spout

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1. spout - Noun

2. spout - Verb

Meaning

To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.

To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery.

To eject water or liquid in a jet.

To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building.

A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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They are, of course, Nazis. They have a kind of Nazi attitude. They are the left wing of Nazism. These guys don't want any other point of view. They don't even feel guilty using tax dollars to spout their propaganda. They are basically Air America with government funding to keep them alive. Roger Ailes

Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening. Ann Coulter

We form many of our political opinions through reading papers and unconsciously absorbing the rhetoric of the journalists. Later, we spout the same opinions as our own. This parallels the way we respond to any authority and it's something politicians understand well. Derren Brown

The pitcher that goes often to the fountain leaves there either its handle or its spout. Italian Proverb

The pitcher that goes often to the well leaves either its handle or its spout there. Portuguese Proverb

One tap on the keg and one on the spout. Sicilian Proverb

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