spout

C2+ Topic:Materials & Substances

US /spaʊt/ UK /spaʊt/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a tube or lip for pouring liquid; to eject liquid forcibly

Water gushed from the spout of the old iron kettle.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a tube or lip for pouring... nozzle jet gush spurt squirt stream erupt

Word family

Derived forms spouting

Simplified etymology

Spout is a Middle English word sharing its root with spit, whose Old English root imitated the sound of someone spitting.

Etymology

From Middle English spouten, probably from Middle Dutch spouten ('to spout, gush'), of imitative origin.

spouten Middle Dutch

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Topics

Materials & Substances

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# spout

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /spaʊt/
**IPA (UK):** /spaʊt/

## Meanings
1. a tube or lip for pouring liquid; to eject liquid forcibly

## Examples
- Water gushed from the spout of the old iron kettle.

## Synonyms
- nozzle
- jet
- gush
- spurt
- squirt
- stream
- erupt

## Derived Forms
- spouting

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: spouten

## Etymology
From Middle English spouten, probably from Middle Dutch spouten ('to spout, gush'), of imitative origin.

## AI Etymology
Spout comes from Middle English spouten, probably from Middle Dutch spouten ('to spout, gush'), of imitative origin. The historical chain includes Middle Dutch spouten. The quoted older sense, "to spout, gush," supplies the immediate semantic anchor for spout. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word spout carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a tube or lip for pouring liquid; to eject liquid forcibly". English derivatives include spouting. The result is a noun and verb whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.

## Topics
- Materials & Substances

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