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spouted

spouted is the simple past and past participle of spout.

Meaning of spout

Verb

spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)

  1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
    • Water spouts from a hole.
  2. (ambitransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
    • The whale spouted.
  3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
  4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
    • Pray, spout some French, son.c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene iv
  5. (dated, slang, transitive) To pawn; to pledge.
    • to spout a watch

See all 13 meanings of spout

Adjective

spouted (not comparable)

  1. Having a spout.
    • The beer was finally poured through a sieve into a spouted jar, from which it was decanted.2006, Robert B. Koehl, Aegean Bronze Age Rhyta, page 292

Words formed from spouted

Phrases with spouted

Questions about spouted

What does spouted mean?
Spouted means having a spout.
What is spouted the simple past and past participle of?
Spouted is the simple past and past participle of spout.
What part of speech is spouted?
Spouted is an adjective.

Words near spouted in the dictionary

  1. spousing
  2. spousy
  3. spout
  4. spout off
  5. spout out
  6. spouted
  7. spouted off
  8. spouted out
  9. spouter
  10. spouters
  11. spoutest

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