SPOUT

spout

Noun

  1. a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
    I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.
  2. a stream of liquid
  3. the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale

Verb

  1. To gush forth in a jet or stream
    Water spouts from a hole.
  2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
    The whale spouted.
  3. To speak tediously or pompously.
  4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
  5. To pawn; to pledge.
    to spout a watch


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