squirt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: geography
hydrodynamics
hydrology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
Etymology: From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably onomatopoeic. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; Icelandic skvetta; and Norwegian skvette.
Inflected forms:
form: squirts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: squirts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: squirting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: squirted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: squirted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, "The rain has come," when it drips down on them.
gloss: A small, quick stream; a jet.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
gloss: The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A burst of noise.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.
gloss: An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.
gloss: A small child.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
Ireland
New-Zealand
Philippines
UK
US
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Hey squirt! Where you been?
1986, Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island, entry in Dictionary of American Children′s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit, page 137,
Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt” of twelve, and the boys′ activities come out.
2010, Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride, Bethany House Publishers, US, page 66,
How the child managed to converse and fold at the same time was a marvel, yet the shirt lay in a tidy rectangle by the time she came up for air.
“Thanks, squirt.” He winked at her and she giggled.
gloss: Female ejaculate.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
vulgar
gloss: An act of urination.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
examples: Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.
gloss: A maneuver in which a kayak is forced into a nearly vertical position.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Werewolves, 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121,
His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.
gloss: To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The hard-featured miscreant[…] coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.
2005, Lisa Heard, NancyRayhorn, 8: Pediatric Sedation, Jan Odom-Forren, Donna Watson, Practical Guide To Moderate Sedation/Analgesia, 2nd Edition, page 171,
When administering the medication, the RN should place the syringe tip along the side of the mouth and slowly squirt the medicine toward the buccal vestibule, not toward the throat.
Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child′s mouth.
gloss: To emit, eject or excrete (something).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
transitive
examples: Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years.
gloss: To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Ask the child to squirt the target with water.
gloss: To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
obsolete
transitive
examples: he'll be ready to squirt his Wits at his own Shadow
gloss: To ejaculate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
vulgar
examples: Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.
gloss: To forcefully maneuver against the current so that the end of a kayak is forced nearly vertical.
pos: verb
examples: Let's start by assuming that you are going to tail squirt as you leave an eddy andd enter the flowing water.
gloss: To 3D print (a firearm).
pos: verb
tags: Internet
transitive
Derived words: sea squirt
squirt bottle
squirt gun
squirtish
squirty
squizzle
squirtable
squirter
squirting cucumber
squirtingly
unsquirted
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَدَفَّقَ
roman: tadaffaqa
lang: Arabic
word: بَثَقَ
roman: baṯaqa
lang: Arabic
word: اِنْدَفَعَ
roman: indafaʕa
lang: Bulgarian
word: бликам
roman: blikam
lang: Cornish
word: stifa
lang: Czech
word: stříkat
lang: Czech
word: vystříknout
lang: Czech
word: vytrysknout
lang: Esperanto
word: disŝpruci
lang: Finnish
word: ruiskuta
lang: Finnish
word: purskahtaa
lang: Finnish
word: ruiskahtaa
lang: French
word: gicler
lang: Galician
word: cichar
lang: Galician
word: xiringar
lang: German
word: spritzen
lang: Hungarian
word: spriccel
lang: Irish
word: scaird
lang: Malay
word: pancut
lang: Malay
word: cerut
lang: Malay
word: cerat
lang: Māori
word: torotī
lang: Māori
word: whakatōkihikihi
lang: Māori
word: tarapī
lang: Portuguese
word: jorrar
lang: Russian
word: бры́згать
roman: brýzgatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: chorrear
lang: Turkish
word: fışkırmak
lang: Turkish
word: püskürmek
lang: Vietnamese
word: tuôn