That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building
If something spouts liquid or fire, or if liquid or fire spout out of something, it comes out very quickly with a lot of force. He replaced the boiler when the last one began to spout flames The main square has a fountain that spouts water 40 feet into the air In a storm, water spouts out of the blowhole just like a whale
disapproval If you say that a person spouts something, you disapprove of them because they say something which you do not agree with or which you think they do not honestly feel. He used his column to spout ill-informed criticism of the Scots rugby team. Spout forth and spout off mean the same as spout. an estate agent spouting forth about houses
To issue with with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery