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UP THE SPOUT

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Up the Spout In pawn. (See Spout .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: UP THE SPOUT

Expressions using "UP THE SPOUT": be up the spout to pop up the spout to put up the spout to shove up the spout. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: UP THE SPOUT

Language Translations for "UP THE SPOUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

në peng, i rrënuar (decrepit, desolate, dilapidated, disreputable, effete, goner, impoverished, lost, ramshackle, tumble down, tumbledown). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ضائع (godforsaken, gone, lost, missing, wasted). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

в затруднение (hard set, in the soup, up the pole), заложен, бременна (enceinte, heavy, impregnate, pregnant, with young), безнадежден (desperate, forlorn, hopeless, irredeemable), безполезен (baubling, bootless, fruitless, futile, ineffective, inutile, naught, needless, no good, nugatory, otiose, pointless, sorry, superfluous, trashy, unavailing, unhelpful, useless, vain, void, worthless). (various references)

   

French

  

foutu, fichu (washed up). (various references)

   

German

  

im eimer (bust, down the drain). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

zálogba (to pledge). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

upay ethay outspay

   

Russian 

  

в закладе, в залоге. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

založeno (spout: up the spout). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

arruinarse (be up the spout, decay, go to pot, go to the dogs, spoil). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

åt pipan. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

rehinde (in hock, in pawn, in pop, pawned), perişan (confused, dead beat, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, wretched), mahvolmuş (all up, banged up, bankrupt, damaged, gone, kaput, lost, perished, ruined, undone, washed up, wrecked), harap olmuş (wrecked). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: UP THE SPOUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-h-o-p-p-s-t-t-u-u"

-3 letters: outpush, outputs, putouts, shutout.

-4 letters: ouphes, output, outset, pushup, putout, setout, shoppe, tophes, tophus, upshot, upstep.

-5 letters: estop, ethos, hopes, house, ouphe, ouphs, pepos, pesto, petto, phots, phuts, poets, popes, pouts, putto, putts, setup, shote, shott, shout, shute, south, spout, stope, stopt, stoup, stout, stupe, teths, those, thous, topes, tophe, tophs, totes, touse.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
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