n.
   - a projecting tube or lip through or over which liquid can be poured from a container.
 - a stream of liquid issuing with great force.
 - a pipe, trough, or chute for conveying liquid, grain, etc. 
▸historical a lift in a pawnshop used to convey pawned items up for storage.
 
v.
  - send out or issue forcibly in a stream.
 - express (one's views) in a lengthy or declamatory way.
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - up the spout
 Brit. informal   - useless, ruined, or wasted.
 - (of a woman) pregnant.
 - (of a bullet or cartridge) in the barrel of a gun and ready to be fired.
 
 
    
   
  Derivative
  
    - spouted adj.
  - spouter n.
  - spoutless adj.
 
   
  Etymology
  ME: from MDu. spouten, from an imitative base shared by ON spýta ‘to spit’.