Verb (used with object) : He spouted his theories on foreign policy for the better part of the night. From Dictionary.com.
The "spouter" was a spray through which Sarah Ann blew coolness on my head, and Johnny had heard of it with interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906.] Reference
Sure enough, about two miles to the leeward of us was a fine barque, at once pronounced a 'spouter' (whaler), and an American. From Wordnik.com. [The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
That’s goes double when the spouter is a minor, and the spoutee an adult — triple when there are small children in the room. From Wordnik.com. ['Baby Borrowers' recap: This is where they run screaming for the condom aisle! | EW.com] Reference
The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
The "spouter," as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent out his main top-gallant mast and set the sail, and made signal for us to heave to. From Wordnik.com. [Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative] Reference
"spouter," and, of course, had all the whaling stories to himself. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
The well may be a 'spouter,' or they may have to pump. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys] Reference
Do you have a favorite right-wing spouter of nonsense?. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Larner: Human Rights: Not A Partisan Issue] Reference
This cliché spouter is giving a pleasant bunch of slackers a bad name. From Wordnik.com. [More Students Want to Study Politics] Reference
That was that the debris from the spouter was not shot so high as at first. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
I would be better if Obama were a jingoistic platitude spouter like McInsane. From Wordnik.com. [Associated Press Gets One Right] Reference
The text does not suggest how recently any such spouter might have been active. From Wordnik.com. [The Lensman's Children] Reference
As the American drove up his car, he stopped by one spouter harranguing against the Metropolitan Police. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Years in the British House of Commons] Reference
Precisely how do you know that he is an "unthinking spouter of slogans" and these are not simply his views?. From Wordnik.com. [The stupidity of youth] Reference
More certain it is that with "Mr. Punch's Young Reciter" he effectively suppressed the drawing-room spouter. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The man who can do anything: space shuttle mechanic, coroner, electrician, impressive technobabble spouter, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Thoughts on Eureka Season 2 (so far)] Reference
You'll have to pick up the pace if you expect to be the preeminent spouter of left-wing talking points around here. From Wordnik.com. [Will this doom the Huckabee campaign?] Reference
I called him an "unthinking spouter of slogans" because he just shouted "Free Palestine, Free Palestine" a slogan not a logical argument. From Wordnik.com. [The stupidity of youth] Reference
The reason I mention her is that she is the spouter of my new favorite phrase, even though I disagree with just about every aspect of it. From Wordnik.com. [Hot Underwear] Reference
"He's no spouter -- that must be said, 'a b'lieve.". From Wordnik.com. [Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school] Reference
` Now, 'said he, ` look along the spouter with one eye.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
A spouter of the worst sort of insider conventional wisdom. From Wordnik.com. [Hominid Views] Reference
He is hiding inside of it since the spouter made its noise. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
Again he pointed his spouter at me, but again it only clicked. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
"Will the man-of-the-woods go first and try the spouter?" asked. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
We let our bodies go soft, and dropped the spouter on the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
Just then a loud report told that the spouter was again to the front. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
"Ay," interrupted Anteek, "but you were afraid, for he had the spouter.". From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
Cheenbuk; "would you say to him that we wish very much to see him use the spouter?". From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
He pointed his spouter at me, and it clicked but would not spout -- I don't know why. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
Florian Marchand, "the water-spouter," was another performer who enjoyed considerable fame. From Wordnik.com. [Royalty Restored] Reference
The BBC has been about as big a spouter of this AGW doctrine as any organization on the planet. From Wordnik.com. [Thought Mesh] Reference
"Are we to get up a war-party and put ourselves to all this trouble for a woman -- and a Fire-spouter woman!". From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
The boy was only too glad to obey, for the mission implied that he should have a place on the sledge along with the Fire-spouter. From Wordnik.com. [The Walrus Hunters A Romance of the Realms of Ice] Reference
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