geyser
[gahy-zer, -ser for 1, 3; gee-zer for 2]
noun
a hot spring that intermittently sends up fountainlike jets of water and steam into the air.
British Informal. a hot-water heater, as for a bath.
verb (used without object)
to spew forth as or like a geyser: the kettle geysering all over the stove.
Origin of geyser
1755–65; < Icelandic Geysir name of a hot spring in Iceland, literally, gusher, derivative of geysa to gush
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Contemporary Examples of geyser
This prompts Sarah Lynn to stab herself with a Confederate bayonet letter-opener, causing a geyser of blood.
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Historical Examples of geyser
The thought set the geyser of his rage roaring and spouting in the face of heaven.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
Hell's Half-Acre was a prelude to ten or twelve miles of geyser formation.
American NotesRudyard Kipling
Should be one another, and not one of them is properly a geyser.
The VerbalistThomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
One day the ash will get into the burners and then the geyser will explode.
Toward the geyser hurried Frank, still looking for his companion.
Frank Merriwell's BraveryBurt L. Standish
geyser
noun
Word Origin for geyser
C18: from Icelandic Geysir, from Old Norse geysa to gush
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