- a pipe or tube on a container through which you can pour liquid out
- the spout of a teapot
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- a stream of liquid coming out of somewhere with great force synonym fountain
Word OriginMiddle English (as a verb): from Middle Dutch spouten, from an imitative base shared by Old Norse spýta ‘to spit’.
Idioms
See spout in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe/go up the spout
- (British English, slang) to be/go wrong; to fail to work or be successful
- Well, that's my holiday plans gone up the spout!
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