• IPA: /spaʊt/
• (Canada) IPA: /spʌʊt/

spout (plural spouts)

1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.

   I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.

2. A stream of liquid.
   • 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood (page 160)

     A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.

3. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

• French: bec verseur
• German: Tülle, Ausguss, Schnabel, Auslauf, Schnaupe, Schnauze, Auslaufrohr, Ausgießer, Wasserspeier, Ausgusstülle, Ausgießtülle
• Italian: beccuccio
• Portuguese: bico, bica, biqueira
• Russian: но́сик
• Spanish: pico (vessel), pitorro (Spain)

• French: jet
• German: Ausfluss, Auslauf, Fluss, Strom, Flüssigkeitsstrom, Fontäne
• Italian: getto
• Portuguese: jorro
• Russian: струя́
• Spanish: chorro

• French: souffle
• German: Blas
• Portuguese: borrifo
• Russian: фонта́н
• Spanish: chorro

spout (spouts, present participle spouting; 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.

   • 1697, Thomas Creech, The Whale

     The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.

3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 4, scene 4:

     Pray, spout some French, son.

5. (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.

   to spout a watch

• French: jaillir
• German: speien, spritzen, herausspritzen
• Italian: sgorgare, zampillare
• Portuguese: jorrar
• Russian: струи́ться
• Spanish: chorrear

• French: palabrer
• German: palavern, quatschen, von sich geben
• Russian: разглаго́льствовать