Squirt
[skwɜːt] or [skwɝt]
Definition
(verb.) cause to come out in a squirt; 'the boy squirted water at his little sister'.
(verb.) wet with a spurt of liquid; 'spurt the wall with water'.
Checked by Ida--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
(v. i.) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
(v. i.) Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(n.) An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
(n.) A small, quick stream; a jet.
Editor: Murdoch
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Eject (through a syringe).
n. Syringe.
Inputed by Delia
Definition
v.t. to throw out water in a stream from a narrow opening.—n. a small instrument for squirting: a small quick stream.—n. Squirt′er.
Checker: Mortimer
Examples
- I was making some stuff to squirt into filaments for the incandescent lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Then I will have some first, the owner said and squirted a long stream into his mouth before he handed the leather bottle around. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He took the wine bottle and tipping his head back swallowed steadily while he squirted a jet of wine into the back of his mouth. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Is it any marvel that such men as Wycliffe began to teach men to think on their own account when the fountain of truth thus squirted against itself? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Several methods of making squirted filaments of a variety of materials, of which about thirty are specified. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Inputed by Lewis