[syn: squirt, force out, squeeze out, eject]
2. wet with a spurt of liquid;
- Example: "spurt the wall with water"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squirt \Squirt\ (skw[~e]rt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Squirted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Squirting.] [Cf. LG. swirtjen to squirt, OSw.
sqv[aum]tta, E. squander.]
To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or
orifice; as, to squirt water.
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The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco
in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire
grate. --Sir W.
Scott.
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Squirting cucumber. (Bot.) See Ecballium.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squirt \Squirt\, v. i.
1. To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a
narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
[1913 Webster]
2. Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
[Low] --L'Estrange.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Squirt \Squirt\, n.
1. An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small
stream with force. --Young.
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2. A small, quick stream; a jet. --Bacon.
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3. (Hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity
of a source.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. a youngster.
[PJC]
5. a short, overly assertive, or impudent person, especially
when young; -- used in contempt.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
squirt
n 1: someone who is small and insignificant [syn: pip-squeak,
squirt, small fry]
2: the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid) [syn:
jet, squirt, spurt, spirt]
v 1: cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at
his little sister" [syn: squirt, force out, squeeze
out, eject]
2: wet with a spurt of liquid; "spurt the wall with water"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
90 Moby Thesaurus words for "squirt":
a nobody, a nothing, blow out, blowout, cast forth, cipher,
common man, debouch, decant, discharge, disembogue, disgorge,
disgorgement, dummy, dysentery, ejaculate, ejaculation, emission,
eruct, eructation, erupt, eruption, exhaust, expel, expulsion,
extravasate, extravasation, figurehead, flush, flux, font, fount,
fountain, geyser, gush, insignificancy, jackstraw, jet,
lightweight, little fellow, little guy, man of straw, mediocrity,
nebbish, nobody one knows, nonentity, obscurity, outburst, outpour,
pip-squeak, play, pour, pour forth, pour out, punk, pup, puppy,
runs, runt, rush, scrub, send forth, send out, shits, shrimp,
small fry, small potato, small potatoes, spatter, spew, spit,
spout, spouter, sprat, spray, sprit, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squit,
stream, surge, throw out, trots, vomit, vomit forth, vomit out,
well, whiffet, whippersnapper