spouting

[ spou-ting ]

/ ˈspaʊ tɪŋ /

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noun Midland U.S.

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Origin of spouting

First recorded in 1870–75; spout + -ing¹

Words nearby spouting

spousal, spouse, spout, spout cup, spouted, spouting, spp., S.P.Q.R., S.P.R., Sprachgefühl, spraddle

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How to use spouting in a sentence

Spouting off against police online has become criminalized in recent weeks.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
No more allowing people to justify their bigotry by spouting a cherry-picked Bible verse.
Dear Leelah, We Will Fight On For You: A Letter to a Dead Trans Teen|Parker Molloy|January 1, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Now he earns millions spouting venom on Fox News about immigrants, women, gays and lesbians, and anyone else.
Arkansas’s Blue Collar Social Conservatives Don’t Know What’s Coming|Monica Potts|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the meantime, Welby is not, at least, spouting ugly bigotry.
UK’s No 1 Churchman Doubts Existence of God: The Archbishop of Canterbury Thinks Deep When Running With His Dog|Tim Teeman|September 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Never mind whatever podcast, Vine, Tumblr, talk radio host or triple-digit cable network is spouting off about at the moment.
Hillary’s Outside Enforcers Are Led by a Former Foe|David Freedlander|July 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
For over twenty years it has been spouting at average intervals of sixty-five minutes.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
She was surrounded and beset by great boiling whirlpools and spouting cross-seas.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands|R.M. Ballantyne
At its orifice reappeared the gold, spouting up furious and fuming, as if insulted by the vile metal which confined it.
Balsamo, The Magician|Alexander Dumas
A savage howling mingled with the roar; the foam flew far like the spouting of a leviathan.
Toilers of the Sea|Victor Hugo
The spouting characteristic of the whale rendered it a marine equivalent to the elephant.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley

British Dictionary definitions for spouting

spouting

/ (ˈspaʊtɪŋ) /

noun

a rainwater downpipe on the exterior of a building
such pipes collectively

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spouting

Origin of spouting

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