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squirt

  • /skwɝt/ US
  • /skwɜːt/ UK

Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)t

Where it comes from

From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette.

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noun squirts

  1. countable, uncountable An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream. The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them.
  2. countable, uncountable A small, quick stream; a jet. a squirt of body lotion
  3. countable, uncountable The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
  4. countable, uncountable A burst of noise. As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.
  5. countable, slang, uncountable An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper. He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.
  6. Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Philippines, UK, US A small child. Hey squirt! Where you been?
  7. slang, uncountable, vulgar Female ejaculate.
  8. countable, informal, uncountable An act of urination. Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.
  9. countable, uncountable A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position.

verb squirts · squirting · squirted

  1. intransitive To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
  2. transitive To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice. The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
  3. broadly, transitive To emit, eject, or excrete (something). Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years.
  4. transitive To hit with a rapid stream of liquid. Ask the child to squirt the target with water.
  5. figuratively, obsolete, transitive To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. he'll be ready to squirt his Wits at his own Shadow
  6. intransitive, slang, vulgar To ejaculate. Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.
  7. To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical. Let's start by assuming that you are going to tail squirt as you leave an eddy andd enter the flowing water.
  8. Internet, transitive To 3D print (a firearm, or a part thereof).

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