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▪ I. squirt, n.|skwɜːt|
Forms: 5 scqwyrt, 6 skurt, squyrt(e, squerte, squirte, 6– squirt (9 north. dial. swirt).
[f. squirt v.]
1. a. Diarrhœa; looseness or laxity of the bowels. Now dial. in pl.
c1460Promp. Parv. (Winch. MS.), Scqwyrt, idem quod flyx, supra. 1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters K j b, The same is good for the squyrt, a cloute wet in the same and put behynde in the fondament. 1530Palsgr. 317/1 Laxe as one that hath the flyxe or squyrte. a1600Deloney Gentle Craft ii. ix. Wks. (1912) 197 If euer I come to giue him Phisicke, if I make him not haue the squirt for fiue dayes, count me the veriest dunce. a1651Cleveland Model of New Rel. 40 A costive Dover gives the Saints the Squirt. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 311 The Cramp, the Stitch, the Squirt, the Itch. 1883Hampshire Gloss. 88 To have the squirts. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. 707 Squirts, diarrhœa... Called also Wild-squirts.
fig.1639Shirley Ball v. i, Your wit has got the squirt too. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 356 He would preach and pray extempore..insomuch that many were pleased to say he was troubled with the Divinity squirt.
†b. Thin excrement. Obs.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Foire, thin dung, skurt. 1611Cotgr., Foire, squirt, thinne dung; a laske.
c. With a: An attack of diarrhœa.
1611Cotgr., Aller long, to haue a squirt, to squatter out behind. 1641(title), Taylor's Physicke has purged the Divel; or the Divell has got a Squirt. By Voluntas Ambulatoria. 1828Carr Craven Gloss. II. 185 Swirt,..a diarrhœa.
2. a. A small tubular instrument by which water may be squirted; a form of syringe.
1530Palsgr. 275/1 Squyrt an instrument, esguissovere. 1552–3in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 107, vj great woodden squertes by him turned and made for the combat of the lorde of misrule. 1632tr. Bruel's Praxis Med. 90 If the patient bee vnwilling to take any medicines, wee must labour to put them into him with a squirt. 1697J. Lewis Mem. Dk. Glocester (1789) 57 While we four men were to ply him well, in the Duke's sight, with syringes, and squirts of all sorts. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 175 A little Pump or Squirt. 1828Carr Craven Gloss. II. 185 Swirt, a syringe. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Nurs. Rem. vi, Billy Hawkins Came, and with his pewter squirt Squibb'd my pantaloons. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. (1894) xiii. 316 To them..foaming waterfalls are like streams from penny squirts.
fig.1730Young Ep. Pope i. 224 But when they have be⁓spatter'd all they may, The statesman throws his filthy squirts away! 1734Pope Let. to Swift 6 Jan., There is a woman's war declared against me by a certain lord; his weapons are..a pin to scratch, and a squirt to bespatter.
transf.1855F. Chamier My Trav. I. xviii. 321 The fountains were nothing but squirts. 1890‘R. Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 81 Casting the revolver away..he..said, ‘Damn the—squirt!’
b. A larger instrument of the same type, used esp. as a fire-extinguisher.
In quot. a 1685 referring to the plunger-pump of Sir Samuel Morland.
1590Lucar Lucar Solace 157 A squirt which hath been devised to cast much water upon a burning house. 1643Seasonable Adv. preventing Fire in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) V. 348 Also it is necessary that every parish should have hooks, ladders, squirts, buckets, and scoops, in readiness, upon any occasion. 1667in Strype's Surv. Lond. (1754) I. i. xxviii. 291/2 That every Alderman..provide four and twenty buckets and one hand squirt of brass. a1685Duke Ep. to Otway, For once a squirt was rais'd by Windsor wall. 1866C. F. T. Young Fires, Fire Engines, etc. vi. 69 Fire engines..seem to have been altogether forgotten in the ‘dark ages’, and ‘squirts’ or portable syringes appear to have been the only contrivances in use.
†c. A kind of inflater or air-pump. Obs.—0
1598Florio, Gonfiatoio,..a squirt of brasse that Balloniers vse to blowe their ballones full of winde.
d. A jet-propelled aeroplane, punningly after jet. Air Force slang. temporary.
1945L. R. Gribble Battle Stories of R.A.F. xxiii. 59 To fly the squirts in combat meant the development of a new technique. 1948N.Y. World-Telegram 30 Dec. 11/7 The plane itself is called a ‘blow torch’, a ‘flame thrower’, a ‘squirt’, [etc.].
3. a. A small quantity of liquid that is squirted; a small jet or spray; an act of squirting.
1626Bacon Sylva §500 The Watring of those Lumps of Dung, with Squirts of an Infusion of the Medicine in Dunged water. 1760Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xxviii, How different from the rash jerks and hare-brained squirts thou art wont..to transact it with in other humours,..spurting thy ink about thy table and thy books. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. iii, And now in these new days such issues do come from a squirt of the pen by some foolish rhyming Réné. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. I. 96 The water makes but the smallest part—a little squirt or two. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy. 78 The rain kept coming in squirts and the wind in squalls.
b. Math. (See quot.)
1878W. K. Clifford Elem. Dynamic, Kinem. 214 The point ς is called a source of strength µ when the fluid streams out in all directions; when µ is negative, so that the fluid streams inwards, it is called a sink. The whole velocity-system here described may be called a squirt.
c. transf. spec. in Air Force slang, a burst of gun-fire.
1942Brennan & Hesselyn Spitfires over Malta i. 28, I gave him a squirt with the scatter guns. 1948Welsh Rev. Winter 287 There was another squirt of song and then silence. 1978K. Amis Jake's Thing iv. 34 To be given the choice of two [buses]..was..certainly welcome in the increasing rain and squirts of cold wind.
d. A compressed radio signal transmitted at high speed. Cf. sense 9 of the vb.
1968M. Woodhouse Rock Baby vii. 64 It can't transmit continuously, though, surely... What does it do, transmit in squirts? 1974‘J. le Carré’ Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy vi. 50 Irina..boiled down the microdots and played radio for him on a high-speed squirt to beat the listeners.
4.
†a. The squirting or spirting cucumber. Obs.—1
1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Cucumis, The wild cucumber, or squirt, called by authors, cucumis asinus, or the ass cucumber.
b. slang. (See quot.)
1859Slang Dict. 100 Squirt, a doctor, or chemist.
c. Zool. An ascidian or sea-squirt.
1891in Cent. Dict.
5. colloq. A paltry or contemptible person; a whipper-snapper; a fop. Also spec. a child or young person. orig. U.S.
a1848Maj. Jones's Courtship 160 (Bartlett), If they won't keep company with squirts and dandies. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss. 370 What do I care for a little squirt like thee? 1914G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 39 She had ‘sized him up’ as a ‘squirt’.., but he was ‘a long sight better than nothing’. 1924Kipling Debits & Credits (1926) 153 They both shook 'ands with the young squirt across the table. 1935‘N. Blake’ Question of Proof i. 17 It's about time that squirt Wemyss was suppressed. 1955M. Gilbert Sky High iii. 46 Most people who send letters like that are cowardly little squirts. 1958B. Malamud Magic Barrel (1960) 138 George..remembered him giving him nickels..when he was a squirt. 1967[see half-portion s.v. half- II. n]. 1977J. Bingham Marriage Bureau Murders xi. 134 Sidney Shaw, the little squirt..ought to be able to intercept a letter.
6. U.S. A display of rhetoric; a piece of fine writing verging on bombast.
1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. ix, That sounds..like what we college boys used to call a ‘squirt’. Ibid., I know what you are thinking—you're thinking this is a squirt.
▪ II. squirt, v.|skwɜːt|
Also 5–6 squyrt, 6 squyrte, squirte, 9 north. dial. swirt.
[Of obscure origin. Cf. LG. swirtjen, swürtjen (also EFriesl. kwirtjen) in senses 1 and 2.
For earlier evidence see squirting vbl. n. In the 14th cent. Nominale (Skeat) 408 the F. esclauotee is rendered by ‘be-squireid’, prob. an error for ‘be-squirtid’.]
I. intr.
1. a. To eject or spirt out water in a jet or slight stream.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 293 in Babees Bk., With youre mouthe ye vse nowþer to squyrt, nor spowt. 1530Palsgr. 731/2, I holde the a grote that I squyrt over yonder wall with my squyrt. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Caner, to squirte. 1711New Map Trav. of High Church Apostle 7 Two Cirenges hanging at his Saddle,..to squirt in the Eyes of his Lowflyers. 1740Cibber Apol. (1756) I. 35 It generally flew back into their faces as it happens to children when they squirt at their playfellows against the wind. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. v. vi, The Firemen are here, squirting with their fire-pumps on the Invalides cannon, to wet the touchholes; they unfortunately cannot squirt so high. 1862C. M. Yonge C'tess Kate iv, I squirted right through the window.
b. To void thin excrement; to have diarrhœa.
1530Palsgr. 731/2, I squyrt, I have a lax, jay le va va. 1598Florio, Squaccarare, to squatter, to squirt or lash it out behind after a purgation. 1611Cotgr., Foirer, to squirt, to shite thinne as in a laske. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxv. 115 For those that are costive..it will make them..squirt the length of a Hunters Staffe.
2. a. To move swiftly or quickly; to dart or frisk. Chiefly with advs., as about, in, up and down, or preps., as among.
1570Foxe A. & M. 1243/1, I thought..to haue made easie iourneys,..and now come you squirtyng in post, and trouble all. 1607Middleton Fam. Love iv. i, Comes master doctor Glister, as his manner is, squirting in suddenly. a1652Brome Covent Garden weeded ii. i, Let me see you squirting about without a weapon,..and I'le weapon you. 1692L'Estrange Fables (1694) 251 You are so..given to squirting up and down, and chattering, that the world would be apt to say I had chosen a Jackpudding for a Prime Minister. 1859–76in dial. glossaries, etc. (Westm., Lancs., Yks.).
†b. ? To move jerkily up and down. Obs.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Chevaucher, Chevaucher à la genette, to sit squirting on horseback with legs drawn vp almost vnto the saddle.
3. To issue or be ejected in a jet-like stream; to spirt or spurt.
1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1872) I. 57 The water squirts out of some fantastic piece of sculpture. 1863Reade Hard Cash I. i. 22 The oars seemed to lash the water savagely,..and the spray squirted at each vicious stroke. 1893W. R. Mackintosh Orkney Peat Fires (1908) iii. 266 The blood was squirting from his finger-tips.
II. trans.
4. a. To cause (liquid) to issue or stream (out) in a jet from a squirt or syringe.
1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 36 A squirt, or a squibbe, which little children vsed to squirt out water withall. 1590Lucar Lucar Solace iv. x. 157 This kinde of squirt may be..made to squirt out his water with great violence upon the fire. 1601Holland Pliny viii. xxvii. I. 210 This bird having a crooked and hooked bill, useth it in steed of a syringe or pipe, to squirt water into that part. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. i. xvii. 64 This..will sooner quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, then whole pots of Holy-water squirted against him. 1688Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 270 Mr. Philip Lewis appeared in the pulpit in the chappell and preached grining and laughing, and [they] had water squirted on them. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 32 She used to hire fellows to squirt kennel water upon him, as he passed along the streets. 1825Jamieson Suppl., To Skoot,..to squirt any liquid.
b. To eject or propel in a stream from a small orifice, etc. Chiefly with advs. or preps.
1601Holland Pliny I. 441 The remedie to keepe Wespes from them, is to spurt or squirt oile out of a mans mouth vpon them. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 207 They..would through their trunks squirt or cast a litle of their drink vpon their attendants. 1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 919 What childish toys, Thy watry columns squirted to the clouds! 1765Museum Rust. IV. 332 Putting a bit of salt and butter up the cod instead of squirting up a little salt water. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 376 It takes in a portion of water, which it has the power of squirting out again with considerable force. 1849Cupples Green Hand i. (1856) 3 The emphatic way in which..they squirted their tobacco-juice on the deck.
c. In fig. uses.
1606J. Day Ile of Gulls iii. i, I had paraphrasticall admonitions of all sortes,—some against couetous Landlords, and that I would squirt amongst beggerlie Tennants. 1678Otway Friendship in Fashion iii. i, Comedy! no, I scorn to write comedy. I know several that can squirt comedy. 1702Boyer Dict. Royal i, Il chie de peur,..he squirts [his] wits, his heart is sunk into his breech. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 157 Versifiers squirting out careless rhapsodies of harmonious billingsgate. 1781H. Walpole Let. to H. S. Conway 6 May, He lifted up his leg, and just squirted contempt on them. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. 123 And you, poor shell fish, squirt your spiteful ban [etc.].
†d. Phr. to squirt a mouldy, to fire a torpedo. Naut. slang. Obs.
1916[see mouldy n.].
5. To inject (a liquid) by means of a squirt or in a similar manner.
c1550H. Lloyd Treas. Health C j, The joyce..put or squyrted into the eye doth put awaye the blemysshes of the same. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 122 Some woulde haue the licour of the lime Bitumen squirted in. 1610[see squirtful]. 1721Bailey, To Syringe, to squirt Liquors into the Ears, Sores, &c. 1841Hood Tale of Trumpet 144 The almond-oil she had tried,..Dabb'd, and dribbled, and squirted in. 1884Marshall's Tennis Cuts 126 The bystanders took so lively an interest in his matches as to squirt tobacco-juice in his eyes.
6. To moisten or cover (a surface) with liquid by means of spirting or squirting; to bring into a certain state in this way.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster To Rdr., They know, I dare To spurne, or baffull 'hem, or squirt their eyes With inke, or vrine: or I could doe worse. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. xxii. 256 Either wash or squirt the soare place with it. 1909Daily Chron. 1 April 4/4 Your first desire on beholding the outside of the building is to order up a few fire hoses and squirt it clean.
7. To cause to squirt or give out liquid.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxiii. 262 Quoth warlike Warwickshire, ‘I'll bind the sturdy Bear’. Quoth Worstershire again, ‘And I will squirt the Pear’.
8. techn. To force or press (a viscous or ductile material) through a small orifice; to form or fashion in this manner.
1881R. W. Raymond Mining Gloss., Squirting, forcing lead by hydraulic pressure into the form of rods or pipes.
9. To transmit (information) in highly compressed or speeded-up form. Also absol.
1971C. Egleton Last Post for Partisan xii. 113, I should have been given the means to squirt... You prerecord the message and then push it through in a second, before they have a chance to find your frequency. 1977P. van Rjndt Blueprint xiii. 231 The message is recorded on a separate tape which is then treated electronically in order to compress the message... The normal procedure is to ‘squirt’ it over radio transmission. 1979C. McCarry Better Angels ii. i. 106 Radio equipment..could squirt a million words from one continent to another via satellite in a droplet of electric energy that required less than a millisecond to send or receive. |