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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of spout.
  • adjective Having a spout.

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Examples

  • Your posts have filled up the board and all you have spouted is rhetoric.

    McCain team reaches out to disappointed Clinton backers 2008

  • New Labour cliches were also spouted from the Tory benches during Monday’s debate on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.

    Archive 2008-05-01 2008

  • If you want to explain science as a process, you are going to run into questions about faith or religion or natural or some other vague word spouted off by an adolescent whose vocabulary does not yet include the very useful word "dogma."

    Science, dogma, and the American Way doyle 2008

  • If you want to explain science as a process, you are going to run into questions about faith or religion or natural or some other vague word spouted off by an adolescent whose vocabulary does not yet include the very useful word "dogma."

    Archive 2008-09-01 doyle 2008

  • Here we have someone who believes every word spouted by some seventh-rate student Marxist who was promoted way, way, way beyond his talents to a government post.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • Most important, he had a way of defusing the obfuscating psychiatric jargon spouted by the shrinks the defense attorneys lined up.

    LET ME CALL YOU SWEETHEART MARY HIGGINS CLARK 2001

  • At night, we'd stand on the beach watching hunters bring in their catch, while whales spouted 100m off the black strand.

    Where I find inspiration … 2011

  • If you still can't find information on how much it might cost for you to live here in Mexico those figures I spouted off are still pretty good in my opinion.

    RV Retirement 2009

  • [1] At one point he spouted some nonsense about This is getting metaphysical, but in a fully-deterministic world there is no such thing as true probabilities (they are always dependent for meaning on some implicit limits on our knowledge).

    Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010

  • BUT, please writers, never again give someone a line like the one ivy spouted off about hanging out with Ray LaMontagne and Ben Harper.

    '90210' recap: A new face and a new friendship | EW.com 2009

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