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spout

English

Etymology

From Middle English spouten, from Middle Dutch spoiten, spouten (> Dutch spuiten (to spout)), from *sp?watjan?. Compare Swedish spruta a squirt, a syringe. See also spit, spew.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /spa?t/
  • (Canada) IPA(key): /sp??t/
  • Rhymes: -a?t

Noun

spout (plural spouts)

  1. A tube or lip through which liquid or steam is poured or discharged.
    I dropped my china teapot, and its spout broke.
  2. A stream of liquid.
    • 2010, James Fleming, Cold Blood (page 160)
      A spout of blood flew from his mouth, spattering Smichov's linen trousers.
  3. The mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale.

Coordinate terms

  • (tube through which liquid is discharged): nozzle

Translations

Verb

spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)

  1. (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
    Water spouts from a hole.
  2. (transitive, intransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
    The whale spouted.
    • 1697, Thomas Creech, The Whale
      The mighty whale [] spouts the tide.
  3. (intransitive) To speak tediously or pompously.
  4. (transitive) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
    • Pray, spout some French, son.
  5. (transitive, slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
    to spout a watch

Translations

Anagrams

  • POTUS, USPTO, pouts, putos, stoup, tupos, upsot

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plethora

English

Etymology

From Late Latin pl?th?ra, from Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, fullness, satiety), from ????? (pl?th?, to be full) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: pl??th?r?, pl??dh?r?, pl?thô?r?, IPA(key): /?pl?????/, /?pl?ð???/, /pl???????/
  • (General American) enPR: pl??th?r?, IPA(key): /?pl?????/
  • Rhymes: -????

Noun

plethora (plural plethorae or plethoras)

  1. (usually followed by of) An excessive amount or number; an abundance.
    • 1817, Francis Jeffrey, review of Lalla Rookh, in the Edinburgh Review
      He labours under a plethora of wit and imagination.
    • 1849, Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage
      I pushed my seat right up before the most insolent gazer, a short fat man, with a plethora of cravat round his neck, and fixing my gaze on his, gave him more gazes than he sent.
    • 1927, H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature (The Aftermath of Gothic Fiction)
      Meanwhile other hands had not been idle, so that above the dreary plethora of trash like Marquis von Grosse's Horrid Mysteries..., there arose many memorable weird works both in English and German.
    • 1986, Lorne Michaels, Steve Martin, Randy Newman, ¡Three Amigos! (film)
      Jefe: We have many beautiful piñatas for your birthday celebration, each one filled with little surprises!
      El Guapo: How many piñatas?
      Jefe: Many piñatas, many!
      El Guapo: Jefe, would you say I have a plethora of piñatas?
      Jefe: A what?
      El Guapo: A plethora.
      Jefe: Oh yes, El Guapo. You have a plethora.
      El Guapo: Jefe, what is a plethora?
      Jefe: Why, El Guapo?
      El Guapo: Well, you just told me that I had a plethora, and I would just like to know if you know what it means to have a plethora. I would not like to think that someone would tell someone else he has a plethora, and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.
      Jefe: El Guapo, I know that I, Jefe, do not have your superior intellect and education, but could it be that once again, you are angry at something else, and are looking to take it out on me?
  2. (medicine) Chronic excess of blood in the skin, usually in the face.

Synonyms

  • (excess, abundance): glut, myriad, surfeit, superfluity, slew

Related terms

  • plethoric

Translations

See also

  • myriad

References

  • plethora” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
    Pronounced: /?pl???r?/, /pl?????r?/.

Anagrams

  • Althorpe, traphole, tropheal

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ??????? (pl?th?r?, fullness, satiety), from ????? (pl?th?, to be full) +? -? (-?, nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

(Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ple?to.ra/, [pl??t?????]

Noun

pl?th?ra f (genitive pl?th?rae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) plethora

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • ? English: plethora

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