Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

spouter

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: spouter
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Anything that spouts.

noun

Someone who rants or talks nonsense at length.

noun

A whale that breathes by spouting; especially a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).

Archaic

noun

A vessel used in whaling.

noun

A vessel used in whaling.

Example Sentences

"a spouter of hateful rhetoric"
"Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter."

Etymology

From spout + -er.

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

spouters (plural)

Synonyms

whaleboat whaleship whaler chatterer babbler prater chatterbox magpie

Questions

What does spouter mean?: Anything that spouts.
Where does spouter come from?: From spout + -er.

How to pronounce spouter

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