Squirt /(skwẽrt)/

Squirt

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Squirted; p. pr. & vb. n. Squirting

  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.

Phrases & Compounds

Squirting cucumber
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]

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. The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source. (Hydrodynamics)
  4. a youngster.
  5. a short, overly assertive, or impudent person, especially when young; -- used in contempt.