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


verb
Squirt  v. t.  (past & past part. squirted; pres. part. squirting)  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."
Squirting cucumber. (Bot.) 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)





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"Squirt" Quotes from Famous Books



... goes to you $1,000 (per draft), and please to recall that what's mine is yours, and what's yours is your own, and there's a good big sum that'll be yours, concerning which later. But take care of yourself, Gladney. You can't drown a mountain with the squirt of a rattlesnake's tooth; you can't flood a memory with cognac. I've tried it. For God's sake don't drink any more. What's the use? Smile in the seesaw of the knives. You can only be killed once, and, believe me, there's twice the fun in taking ...
— An Unpardonable Liar • Gilbert Parker
... sealed orders from their leader, had been round borrowing a screw-driver and screws, a few yards of rope, and other material of war, among which was a squirt belonging to Reynolds, who had been pleased to "swap" it for a couple of Greek stamps which ...
— The Cock-House at Fellsgarth • Talbot Baines Reed
... the grizzled old-timer—Tom North by name. "You, Purdy, set down; and you, young squirt, subside! If you're going to have ructions, why, have 'em, but not on drive. If you don't look out, I'll set you both to rustling wood ...
— The Riverman • Stewart Edward White
... mean? I put him in because he looked to be polo stuff. Now the young squirt won't practice enough to be ...
— Success - A Novel • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... explode or refuse to light, exploding cigars or cigarettes, fountain-pens that smear ink over the fingers immediately they are put to use, "electric" bells with pins secreted in their push buttons, and boutonnieres that squirt water into the face of the beholder, are ...
— Writing for Vaudeville • Brett Page


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