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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



... confine their satire to subjects and characters that had nothing to do with the State. The Duke of Orleans was no longer to figure in lithography as the fantastic Prince Rosolin; no longer were multitudes (in chalk) to shelter under the enormous shadow of M. d'Argout's nose: Marshal Loban's squirt was hung up in peace, and M. Thiers's pigmy figure and round spectacled face were no more to appear in print.* Robert Macaire was driven out of the Chambers and the Palace—his remarks were a great deal too ...
— The Paris Sketch Book Of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh • William Makepeace Thackeray
... without mentioning the little fountain in Fountain Court?—that pet and plaything of the Temple, that, like a little fairy, sings to beguile the cares of men oppressed with legal duties. It used to look like a wagoner's silver whip—now a modern writer cruelly calls it "a pert squirt." In Queen Anne's time Hatton describes it as forcing its stream "to a vast and almost incredible altitude"—it is now only ten feet high, no higher than a giant lord chancellor. Then it was fenced with palisades—now it is caged in iron; then it stood in a square—now it is in a round. But it still ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... wind pushes huge bundles Of itself in warm motion Through the barrack windows; It rattles a sheet of flypaper Tacked in a smear of sunshine on the sill. A voice and other voices squirt A slow path among the room's tumbled sounds. A ukelele somewhere clanks In accidental jets Up from the ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry
... charming little squirt—best bat the Nursery had last year. And, though nobody but myself recognised it, the ...
— Tell England - A Study in a Generation • Ernest Raymond
... on! Don't squirt that infernal stuff at me! My dear boy, get a grip on yourself. I'm not really a ki-yi, and while I don't like bicyclists, their bones are safe from me. I won't ...
— The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces • John Kendrick Bangs


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