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spouters

spouters is the plural of spouter.

Meaning of spouter

Noun

spouter (plural spouters)

  1. Anything that spouts.
  2. Someone who rants or talks nonsense at length.
    • a spouter of hateful rhetoric
  3. (archaic) A whale that breathes by spouting; especially a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
  4. (historical) A vessel used in whaling.
    • Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 270
    1. (historical, rare) A person engaged in whaling; a skillful whaler.

Questions about spouters

What is spouters the plural of?
Spouters is the plural of spouter.

Words near spouters in the dictionary

  1. spout out
  2. spouted
  3. spouted off
  4. spouted out
  5. spouter
  6. spouters
  7. spoutest
  8. spouteth
  9. spoutfish
  10. spoutfishes
  11. spouthole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: spouters (page history and authors); spouter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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