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Squirt
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Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force. Young.
2. A small, quick stream; a jet. Bacon.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water. The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate. Sir W. Scott. Squirting cucumber. (Bot.) See Ecballium.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
2. Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. [Low] L'Estrange.