spoutern.

Brit.

/ˈspaʊtə/, U.S.

/ˈspaʊdər/

Forms: see spout v. and -er suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: spout v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: < spout v. + -er suffix¹.

a. A thing that discharges something in a stream or spout; spec. (in later use) a geyser.Also with modifying word. Recorded earliest in water spouter n.

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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > copious emission or effusion > one who

spoutera1500

pourer1565

outpourer1846

a1500 Medulla Gram. (Harl. 2270) f. 92^v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Spouter Aqeueuomus, a water spowter [a1425 Stonyhurst water spuer; 1468 St. John's Cambr. qui vomit aquam].

1827 Star 18 Oct. 2/4 The flame spouter glowed with unabated vividness and the skeleton hounds and huntsmen pursued their game to the death.

1857 Crayon 4 49/1 Fountains,..if composed of ridiculous and incomprehensible figures for water-bearers, or spouters, will..create a feeling of disgust.

1884 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 502 In Iceland only three of the areas have geysers of note. In the Yellowstone Park, eight, at least, have good spouters.

1931 San Antonio (Texas) Express 3 May a13 (heading) Spouters produce only sufficient to make small stream.

1990 Montana 40 4/1 If they erupt constantly, they are not technically geysers, but rather perpetual spouters.

2015 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 20 Villarrica is one of South America's most active spouters and last erupted in 2000.

b. A spouting oil well.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well

well1652

spouting well1776

petroleum well1801

rock well1830

oil well1859

spouter1865

gusher1876

test well1877

wild cat1877

wildcat well1883

roarera1885

oiler1890

discovery1900

edge well1904

wild well1915

offset well1922

stripper1930

offset1933

production well1934

outstep1947

step-out well1948

1865 Merchants' Mag. Feb. 93 Fewer new wells are great spouters than formerly.

1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Oct. 6/1 How long Tagieff's ‘spouter’ will last, and what its ultimate yield will be, will depend upon circumstances.

1901 Daily Chron. 31 May 7/1 There have been some honest companies.., and these have worked to pay dividends by securing a spouter.

2000 Hist. Today Aug. 47/1 Baku became notorious for its gushers and spouters.

a. A spouting whale; a whale of a kind that spouts, spec. the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus. Now rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > spouting whale

spouter1587

spout whalea1688

1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Excellent & Pleasant Worke sig. Ee.ii There are also which they call Physeters, which..lift themselues aboue the sayleyards of Shyppes. [margin] Spowters.

1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Introd. p. xxiii The Trumpa Whale or Spouter, may perhaps be the Physeter, and the Sperma Ceti Whale the Pot-Walfish.

1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 519 In a calm to-day, we had a number of whales, and the whole tribe of spouters about the vessel.

a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 344/1 The Spouters are mostly characterized by width, flatness, shallowness, and equal extent of the jaws.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 645 Spouter, a whaling term for a South Sea whale.

1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 10/3 The bow of the boat swung round on the point where the spouter was seen.

1984 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. The great sperm whale.., also known as the great spouter, has an average weight of 40 tons and length of up to 65ft.

†b. A blowhole; = spout hole n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > other parts of

spouter1622

scruff1673

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xix. 48 The Indian..thrusteth in a Logg into one of his Spowters, and..knocketh it in so fast, that by no meanes the Whale can get it out.

c. A whaleboat; (occasionally also) a person engaged in whaling; = whaler n. 1, 2. Now historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel

Greenlandman1659

whale-boat1682

whalefisherman1724

whaleman1767

whaler1806

spouter1815

whale-ship1820

catcher1829

sperm-whaler1834

blubber-boiler1851

plum-puddinger1851

five-boater1887

bay whaler1905

1815 Public Ledger & Daily Advertiser 6 Jan. (advt.) The brig John, 102 register measurements..would make a capital spouter..and may be sent to sea immediately.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 42 The ‘spouter’, as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 262 A ‘spouter’ we knew her to be..by her cranes and boats..and a certain slovenly look to the sails, rigging, spars, and hull; and when we got on board, we found everything to correspond,—spouter fashion.

1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 208 I've been fishing now a good many years in Yankee spouters.

1970 S. Trueman Intimate Hist. New Brunswick ix. 122 The ships went on whale-hunting voyages to the far Pacific... Most seamen looked down with scorn on the ‘spouters’ as they were called.

2004 J. Druett Watery Grave xxi. 217 Wiki stood on the waist deck..watching the flying spouter with fascination, and wondering why the old ship was so obviously determined to defy the navy.

a. A reciter or amateur actor. Now somewhat rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor by manner of performance

tear-mouth1616

tear-throat1620

spouter1750

stick1801

gagger1871

facialist1877

fake1880

hamfatter1880

ham1882

mugger1892

ham-bone1893

upstager1933

rhubarber1953

1750 W. Kenrick in Kapélion 128 The Race of new modell'd Mortals, vulgarly call'd Spouters.

1785 J. Atkinson Mutual Deception i. i. 12 Me, Sir, you know I'm an old spouter, and have done every character from Cherry to Beatrice at our holiday plays in the country.

1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 164 The major-domo, a great spouter, undertook to train me for the stage.

1937 Variety 7 July 44/2 The bald, cold limited scope of radio tends to defeat even as astute a Shakespearean spouter as John Barrymore.

2002 G. Russell in G. Russell & C. Tuite Romantic Sociability 139 Geographically, culturally and politically the public lecturer existed in close proximity to the greasy spouter and the star actor.

b. Typically with pejorative connotations: a fluent or voluble declaimer, speaker, or debater; (also) a person who speaks without thought or reflection. Frequently with of.

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the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > in specific ways

speakera1340

breatherc1384

boasterc1400

rattlerc1449

brawler1581

shredder1592

venter1611

speak-truth1614

ranter1649

bawler1656

yelper1673

mouther1746

spouter1759

oralist1867

mushmouth1868

loudmouth1870

megaphonist1906

1759 Duchess of Marlborough Let. to Great Man 3 He never in his life heard a spouter of high heroics, or a boaster of patriotism, but that he was sure of him, on coming up to his price.

1784 E. Harwood Let. S. Badcock 24 Dr. Horsley..must in his heart despise a spiritual spouter of Calvinism, Election, Predestination, Original Sin, &tc.

1809 T. Pickering Let. 12 Jan. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 317 The other spouters, implicitly confiding in their leaders, are but parrots repeating the notes proceeding from the palace.

1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. i. 2 Foker..voted Erith a prig and a dullard,..the dreariest of philanthropic spouters.

1884 C. H. Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel June 262 There's no stopping these foaming spouters—they must just run themselves dry.

1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. 109 He..became a hard drinker, a foul-mouthed blasphemer, and a blatant spouter of infidelity.

1956 J. Lindsay George Meredith xix. 218 A spouter of rank sedition..managed to make himself heard.

1986 Scouting Mar. 19/2 Some of the greatest men of all time were compulsive spouters.

2006 Private Eye 7 July 8/2 Bumbling, amiable Carruthers, a cliché spouter of the first water, recently took over from Sir Nigel Crisp.

2011 J. H. Khemiri Montecore 115 The Dynamic Duo is launched and you take your place as..idea spouter for motifs.

†4. A ship or barge able to take coal on board from an overhead chute or spout (spout n. 2b). Also: (in plural) coals so loaded. Obsolete. rare.Cf. spout coals n., spout vessel n. at spout n. Compounds 2.

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society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun]

coal1253

sea-coal1253

pit-coal1483

cannel1541

earth coala1552

horse coal1552

Newcastle coal1552

stone-coal1585

cannel coal1587

parrot1594

burn-coal1597

lithanthrax1612

stony coal1617

Welsh coala1618

land-coala1661

foot coal1665

peacock coal1686

rough coal1686

white coal1686

heathen-coalc1697

coal-stone1708

round1708

stone-coal1708

bench-coal1712

slipper coal1712

black coal1713

culm1742

rock coal1750

board coal1761

Bovey coal1761

house coal1784

mineral coal1785

splint1789

splint coal1789

jet coal1794

anthracite1797

wood-coal1799

blind-coal1802

black diamond1803

silk-coal1803

glance-coal1805

lignite1808

Welsh stone-coal1808

soft1811

spout coals1821

spouter1821

Wallsend1821

brown coal1833

paper coal1833

steam-coal1850

peat-coal1851

cherry-coal1853

household1854

sinter coal1854

oil coal1856

raker1857

Kilkenny coal1861

Pottery coal1867

silkstone1867

block coal1871

admiralty1877

rattlejack1877

bunker1883

fusain1883

smitham1883

bunker coal1885

triping1886

trolley coal1890

kibble1891

sea-borne1892

jet1893

steam1897

sack coal1898

Welsh1898

navigation coal1900

Coalite1906

clarain1919

durain1919

vitrain1919

single1921

kolm1930

hards1956

1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 3 Ships, at certain places, can load under the staith, these are called spouters, by reason of the Coals descending from a spout into the vessel... Coal merchants..are always anxious to purchase spouters, as the coals are of a larger quality.

Compounds

† spouter out n. Obsolete rare something which spouts out water (figurative in quot.).

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1796 C. Lamb Let. 6 July in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. vi. 41 These mighty spouters out of panegyric waters [i.e. reviews full of praise] have..scatter'd their fray even upon me!

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	spouter
释义	spoutern. Brit. /ˈspaʊtə/, U.S. /ˈspaʊdər/ Forms: see spout v. and -er suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: spout v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: < spout v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. A thing that discharges something in a stream or spout; spec. (in later use) a geyser.Also with modifying word. Recorded earliest in water spouter n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > copious emission or effusion > one who spoutera1500 pourer1565 outpourer1846 a1500 Medulla Gram. (Harl. 2270) f. 92^v, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Spouter Aqeueuomus, a water spowter [a1425 Stonyhurst water spuer; 1468 St. John's Cambr. qui vomit aquam]. 1827 Star 18 Oct. 2/4 The flame spouter glowed with unabated vividness and the skeleton hounds and huntsmen pursued their game to the death. 1857 Crayon 4 49/1 Fountains,..if composed of ridiculous and incomprehensible figures for water-bearers, or spouters, will..create a feeling of disgust. 1884 Pop. Sci. Monthly Aug. 502 In Iceland only three of the areas have geysers of note. In the Yellowstone Park, eight, at least, have good spouters. 1931 San Antonio (Texas) Express 3 May a13 (heading) Spouters produce only sufficient to make small stream. 1990 Montana 40 4/1 If they erupt constantly, they are not technically geysers, but rather perpetual spouters. 2015 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Mar. 20 Villarrica is one of South America's most active spouters and last erupted in 2000. b. A spouting oil well. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well well1652 spouting well1776 petroleum well1801 rock well1830 oil well1859 spouter1865 gusher1876 test well1877 wild cat1877 wildcat well1883 roarera1885 oiler1890 discovery1900 edge well1904 wild well1915 offset well1922 stripper1930 offset1933 production well1934 outstep1947 step-out well1948 1865 Merchants' Mag. Feb. 93 Fewer new wells are great spouters than formerly. 1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Oct. 6/1 How long Tagieff's ‘spouter’ will last, and what its ultimate yield will be, will depend upon circumstances. 1901 Daily Chron. 31 May 7/1 There have been some honest companies.., and these have worked to pay dividends by securing a spouter. 2000 Hist. Today Aug. 47/1 Baku became notorious for its gushers and spouters. 2. a. A spouting whale; a whale of a kind that spouts, spec. the sperm whale, Physeter macrocephalus. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > spouting whale spouter1587 spout whalea1688 1587 A. Golding tr. Solinus Excellent & Pleasant Worke sig. Ee.ii There are also which they call Physeters, which..lift themselues aboue the sayleyards of Shyppes. [margin] Spowters. 1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. Introd. p. xxiii The Trumpa Whale or Spouter, may perhaps be the Physeter, and the Sperma Ceti Whale the Pot-Walfish. 1830 N. S. Wheaton Jrnl. 519 In a calm to-day, we had a number of whales, and the whole tribe of spouters about the vessel. a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 344/1 The Spouters are mostly characterized by width, flatness, shallowness, and equal extent of the jaws. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. 645 Spouter, a whaling term for a South Sea whale. 1913 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 22 Feb. 10/3 The bow of the boat swung round on the point where the spouter was seen. 1984 Guardian (Nexis) 17 Nov. The great sperm whale.., also known as the great spouter, has an average weight of 40 tons and length of up to 65ft. †b. A blowhole; = spout hole n. 1. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > parts of > other parts of spouter1622 scruff1673 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xix. 48 The Indian..thrusteth in a Logg into one of his Spowters, and..knocketh it in so fast, that by no meanes the Whale can get it out. c. A whaleboat; (occasionally also) a person engaged in whaling; = whaler n. 1, 2. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > whaling vessel Greenlandman1659 whale-boat1682 whalefisherman1724 whaleman1767 whaler1806 spouter1815 whale-ship1820 catcher1829 sperm-whaler1834 blubber-boiler1851 plum-puddinger1851 five-boater1887 bay whaler1905 1815 Public Ledger & Daily Advertiser 6 Jan. (advt.) The brig John, 102 register measurements..would make a capital spouter..and may be sent to sea immediately. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast v. 42 The ‘spouter’, as the sailors call a whaleman, had sent up his main top-gallant mast and set the sail. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxv. 262 A ‘spouter’ we knew her to be..by her cranes and boats..and a certain slovenly look to the sails, rigging, spars, and hull; and when we got on board, we found everything to correspond,—spouter fashion. 1901 F. T. Bullen Sack of Shakings 208 I've been fishing now a good many years in Yankee spouters. 1970 S. Trueman Intimate Hist. New Brunswick ix. 122 The ships went on whale-hunting voyages to the far Pacific... Most seamen looked down with scorn on the ‘spouters’ as they were called. 2004 J. Druett Watery Grave xxi. 217 Wiki stood on the waist deck..watching the flying spouter with fascination, and wondering why the old ship was so obviously determined to defy the navy. 3. a. A reciter or amateur actor. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] > actor by manner of performance tear-mouth1616 tear-throat1620 spouter1750 stick1801 gagger1871 facialist1877 fake1880 hamfatter1880 ham1882 mugger1892 ham-bone1893 upstager1933 rhubarber1953 1750 W. Kenrick in Kapélion 128 The Race of new modell'd Mortals, vulgarly call'd Spouters. 1785 J. Atkinson Mutual Deception i. i. 12 Me, Sir, you know I'm an old spouter, and have done every character from Cherry to Beatrice at our holiday plays in the country. 1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas IV. x. x. 164 The major-domo, a great spouter, undertook to train me for the stage. 1937 Variety 7 July 44/2 The bald, cold limited scope of radio tends to defeat even as astute a Shakespearean spouter as John Barrymore. 2002 G. Russell in G. Russell & C. Tuite Romantic Sociability 139 Geographically, culturally and politically the public lecturer existed in close proximity to the greasy spouter and the star actor. b. Typically with pejorative connotations: a fluent or voluble declaimer, speaker, or debater; (also) a person who speaks without thought or reflection. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > one who speaks > [noun] > in specific ways speakera1340 breatherc1384 boasterc1400 rattlerc1449 brawler1581 shredder1592 venter1611 speak-truth1614 ranter1649 bawler1656 yelper1673 mouther1746 spouter1759 oralist1867 mushmouth1868 loudmouth1870 megaphonist1906 1759 Duchess of Marlborough Let. to Great Man 3 He never in his life heard a spouter of high heroics, or a boaster of patriotism, but that he was sure of him, on coming up to his price. 1784 E. Harwood Let. S. Badcock 24 Dr. Horsley..must in his heart despise a spiritual spouter of Calvinism, Election, Predestination, Original Sin, &tc. 1809 T. Pickering Let. 12 Jan. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 317 The other spouters, implicitly confiding in their leaders, are but parrots repeating the notes proceeding from the palace. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. i. 2 Foker..voted Erith a prig and a dullard,..the dreariest of philanthropic spouters. 1884 C. H. Spurgeon in Sword & Trowel June 262 There's no stopping these foaming spouters—they must just run themselves dry. 1890 W. Booth In Darkest Eng. 109 He..became a hard drinker, a foul-mouthed blasphemer, and a blatant spouter of infidelity. 1956 J. Lindsay George Meredith xix. 218 A spouter of rank sedition..managed to make himself heard. 1986 Scouting Mar. 19/2 Some of the greatest men of all time were compulsive spouters. 2006 Private Eye 7 July 8/2 Bumbling, amiable Carruthers, a cliché spouter of the first water, recently took over from Sir Nigel Crisp. 2011 J. H. Khemiri Montecore 115 The Dynamic Duo is launched and you take your place as..idea spouter for motifs. †4. A ship or barge able to take coal on board from an overhead chute or spout (spout n. 2b). Also: (in plural) coals so loaded. Obsolete. rare.Cf. spout coals n., spout vessel n. at spout n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > coal or types of coal > [noun] coal1253 sea-coal1253 pit-coal1483 cannel1541 earth coala1552 horse coal1552 Newcastle coal1552 stone-coal1585 cannel coal1587 parrot1594 burn-coal1597 lithanthrax1612 stony coal1617 Welsh coala1618 land-coala1661 foot coal1665 peacock coal1686 rough coal1686 white coal1686 heathen-coalc1697 coal-stone1708 round1708 stone-coal1708 bench-coal1712 slipper coal1712 black coal1713 culm1742 rock coal1750 board coal1761 Bovey coal1761 house coal1784 mineral coal1785 splint1789 splint coal1789 jet coal1794 anthracite1797 wood-coal1799 blind-coal1802 black diamond1803 silk-coal1803 glance-coal1805 lignite1808 Welsh stone-coal1808 soft1811 spout coals1821 spouter1821 Wallsend1821 brown coal1833 paper coal1833 steam-coal1850 peat-coal1851 cherry-coal1853 household1854 sinter coal1854 oil coal1856 raker1857 Kilkenny coal1861 Pottery coal1867 silkstone1867 block coal1871 admiralty1877 rattlejack1877 bunker1883 fusain1883 smitham1883 bunker coal1885 triping1886 trolley coal1890 kibble1891 sea-borne1892 jet1893 steam1897 sack coal1898 Welsh1898 navigation coal1900 Coalite1906 clarain1919 durain1919 vitrain1919 single1921 kolm1930 hards1956 1821 Acct. Peculations Coal Trade 3 Ships, at certain places, can load under the staith, these are called spouters, by reason of the Coals descending from a spout into the vessel... Coal merchants..are always anxious to purchase spouters, as the coals are of a larger quality. Compounds † spouter out n. Obsolete rare something which spouts out water (figurative in quot.). ΚΠ 1796 C. Lamb Let. 6 July in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. vi. 41 These mighty spouters out of panegyric waters [i.e. reviews full of praise] have..scatter'd their fray even upon me! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1500
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