spout

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
spout/spaʊt/

▶noun

• 1 a projecting tube or lip through or over which liquid can be poured from a container.

• 2 a stream of liquid issuing with great force.

• 3 a pipe, trough, or chute for conveying liquid, grain, etc.

  ■ historical a lift in a pawnshop used to convey pawned items up for storage.

▶verb

• 1 send out or issue forcibly in a stream.

• 2 express (one's views) in a lengthy or declamatory way.

– phrases
up the spout Brit. informal

• 1 useless, ruined, or wasted.

• 2 (of a woman) pregnant.

• 3 (of a bullet or cartridge) in the barrel of a gun and ready to be fired.

– derivatives
spouted adjective,
spouter noun,
spoutless adjective.

– origin ME: from MDu. spouten, from an imitative base shared by ON spýta ‘to spit’.