• (RP) enPR: spû(r)t, IPA: /spɜːt/
• (America) enPR: spûrt, IPA: /spɝt/

From earlier spirt, sprit, from Middle English sprytten, from Old English spryttan, from Proto-West Germanic *spruttjan, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)per-.

spurt (spurts, present participle spurting; simple past and past participle spurted)

1. (transitive) To cause to gush out suddenly or violently in a stream or jet.
2. (intransitive) To rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet.
   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC ↗:

     Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, / Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 21, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC ↗:

     With that he pulled open his shirt, and with his long sharp nails opened a vein in his breast. When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some to the . . . Oh, my God! My God! What have I done?

• spout

• Russian: бры́згать
• Spanish: acelerón, acelerada

• French: gicler
• German: spritzen, zischen, schießen
• Russian: бры́згать

spurt (plural spurts)

1. A brief gush, as of liquid spurting from an orifice or a cut/wound.

   a spurt of water; a spurt of blood

2. (slang) Ejaculation of semen.
3. (obsolete) A shoot; a bud.
   • 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book II.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC ↗:

     The Garden Sperages […] send out at first certaine greene spurts or buds peeping forth of the ground.

• German: Spritzer, Strahl
• Russian: пото́к

spurt (plural spurts)

1. A moment, a short period of time.
2. A sudden brief burst of, or increase in, speed, effort, activity, emotion or development.

   The boss's visit prompted a brief spurt of activity.

   • 1859, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown At Oxford:

     The long, steady sweep of the so-called "paddle" tried him almost as much as the breathless strain of the spurt.

3. The act of spurting, or something spurted
   • 2015, Shelley Munro, Alexandre:

     He thrust against her and deep inside, she felt his spurt of semen. Her clit jumped in response, and Lily tumbled into an orgasm that shook her clear to her toes.

• German: Spurt, Ausbruch

spurt (spurts, present participle spurting; simple past and past participle spurted)

1. (intransitive) To make a strong effort for a short period of time.

   The bullion market spurted on Thursday.

   The runners spurted to the last lap as if they had extracted new energy from the applauds of the audience.

• German: spurten, sprinten, sputen
• Russian: делать рывок