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Squirt   /skwərt/   Listen
noun
Squirt  n.  
1.
An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
2.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
3.
(Hydrodynamics) The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
4.
A youngster.
5.
A short, overly assertive, or impudent person, especially when young; used in contempt.


verb
Squirt  v. t.  (past & past part. squirted; pres. part. squirting)  To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water. "The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate."
Squirting cucumber. (Bot.) See Ecballium.


Squirt  v. i.  
1.
To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; said of liquids.
2.
Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. (Low)





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"Squirt" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lords' mild lispings will kindly list.) No; the Demon must work his will On his ill-paid suffering victims still; But—he'd better look with a little less dirt, So sprinkle the brute with our Rose-water Squirt!!! ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, May 24, 1890 • Various
... a squirt of oil out of my can—for we do love Moss, and then I told him that Nelson on the quarter-deck of the Victory wasn't more alive to ...
— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton
... and a part of his nose had bin chawed off in his fights with opposition firemen during boyhood's sunny hours. They lived to a green old age, beloved by all, both grate and small. Their children, of which they have numerous, often go up onto the Common and see the Fountain squirt. ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 3 • Charles Farrar Browne
... confirmed superior, insufferably adult—she was laughing at him as a grown person laughs at a child. Conspicuously and unmistakably, there was something indulgent in her amusement. He choked. Here was a little squirt of a high-school girl who would trot up to George Washington himself and show off around him, given the opportunity; and George Washington would probably pat her on the head, or give her a medal—or something. Well, let him! Ramsey didn't care. He didn't care for George Washington, or Paul Revere, ...
— Ramsey Milholland • Booth Tarkington
... thought the most tempting morsel, and then put it through the bars of his cage into my mouth. He would sometimes feed other people, but as a rule he disliked strangers, and I have known him even take water in his beak and squirt it at those who displeased him. On the whole, a jay is not a very desirable pet; he is restless in a cage, and too large to be quite convenient when loose in a room; again, his great timidity is a drawback—the least noise, the sight of ...
— Wild Nature Won By Kindness • Elizabeth Brightwen


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