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Spouter

noun

An obnoxious and foolish and loquacious talker. Synonyms: babbler, chatterbox, chatterer, magpie, prater.

An oil well that is spouting.

A spouting whale.

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"Spouter" Quotes from Famous Books

... the services the good deacons would probably feel called upon to take the young man out behind the church and give him a little fatherly advice, the burthen of which would be to become an auctioneer or seek a situation as "spouter" ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... honest one be found; He'll better, wiser go for what we say. Should some ripe scholar, gentle and benign, With candour, care, and judgment thee peruse: Thy faults to kind oblivion he'll consign; Nor to thy merit will his praise refuse. Thou may'st be searched for polish'd words and verse By flippant spouter, emptiest of praters: Tell him to seek them in some mawkish verse: My periods all are rough as nutmeg graters. The doggerel poet, wishing thee to read, Reject not; let him glean thy jests and stories. His brother I, ...

— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior

... learning, or his courage may be, from the slightest chance of being permitted to serve his country either for fee or without. A fellow who unites in himself the bankrupt trader, the broken author, or rather book-maker, and the laughed-down single speech spouter of the House of Commons, may look forward, always supposing that at one time he has been a foaming radical, to the government of an important colony. Ay, an ancient fox who has lost his tail may, provided ...

— The Romany Rye - A Sequel to 'Lavengro' • George Borrow

Words linked to "Spouter" : talker, babbler, speaker, verbalizer, whale, oiler, verbaliser, magpie, spout, chatterer, utterer, oil well