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Entry 8 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Squirt

/(skwẽrt)/ · IPA /skwɝt/
01 v. t. To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
imp. & p. p. Squirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squirting
  1. 1.
    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.” Sir W. Scott.
Phrases & compounds
Squirting cucumber — See Ecballium.
02 v. i. To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
  1. 1.
    To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
  2. 2.
    Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.[Low]
03 n. An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
  1. 1.
    An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force.
  2. 2.
    A small, quick stream; a jet.
  3. 3.
    The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.(Hydrodynamics)
  4. 4.
    a youngster.
  5. 5.
    a short, overly assertive, or impudent person, especially when young; -- used in contempt.