Squirt /(skwẽrt)/
Squirt
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Squirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squirting
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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.
Phrases & Compounds
- Squirting cucumber
- See Ecballium.
Squirt
v. i.
- To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
- Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. [Low]
Squirt
n.
- An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
- A small, quick stream; a jet.
- The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. (Hydrodynamics)
- a youngster.
- a short, overly assertive, or impudent person, especially when young; -- used in contempt.