Squirt

Definition: Squirt

Squirt

Noun

1. Someone who is small and insignificant.

2. The occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid).

Verb

1. Cause to come out in a squirt, of liquids.

2. Wet with a spurt of liquid; "spurt the wall with water".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "squirt" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references)

Note: Squirt \Squirt\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Squirted; Squirting.]. (references)

Military & Defense

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

Synonyms: Squirt

Ejection

Verb: give exit, give vent to; let out, give out, pour out, squeeze out, send out; dispatch, despatch; exhale, excern, excrete; embogue; secrete, secern; extravasate, shed, void, evacuation; emit; open the sluices, open the floodgates; turn on the tap; extrude, detrude; effuse, spend, expend; pour forth; squirt, spirt, spurt, spill, slop; perspire; (exude); breathe, blow; (wind).

River

Jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau; sluice.

Crosswords: Squirt

I gotta take a squirt. (Reservoir Dogs; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino)

Then this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of this brand-new deck of cards and squirt cider in your ear. But, son, do not accept this bet, because as sure as you stand there, you're going to wind up with an ear full of cider (Guys and Dolls; writing credit: Abe Burrows; Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

That little squirt took down that Heartless (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

What can I say, I was feeling relaxed, when I feel relaxed I squirt. (Mallrats; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

We squirt soap out of them, and that's how we keep the ship so clean (Aqua Teen Hunger Force; writing credit: Matt Maiellaro; Dave Willis)

The Big Squirt (1937)

Soda Squirt (1933)

Squirt TV (1994)

The Lethal Squirt (1991)

Squirt (1988)

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

Books

• A Dolphin Goes to School: The Story of Squirt, a Trained Dolphin (reference)

• Little Squirt, the Fire Engine (reference)

• Nature's Squirt Guns, Bubble Pipes, and Fireworks: Geysers, Hot Springs, and Volcanoes (reference)

• Squirt Boating & Beyond: How to Rip in Anything That Squirts (reference)

• SQUIRT! (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Squirt Pt.2 [CD-SINGLE] [IMPORT] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods

• LEATHERMAN Leatherman Squirt P4 Multi-Tool ? Gray (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Squirt in a couple quarts of sawdust

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Expressions using "squirt": sea squirt ♦ squirt can ♦ squirt gun ♦ squirt the bird. Additional references.

Beginning with "squirt": squirt-by-puff, Squirt-tech.

Ending with "squirt": sea-squirt.

Albanian

shiringë (syringe), rrymë (current, drift, effluent, jet, Niagara, nullah, onflow, outpour, rain, spurt, stream, thrashing-floor, threshing floor, tide, wave), nxjerr çurg, curril (jet, spout, spurt, stream), çurg (flush, spout, spray, spurt). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كمية بسيطة, ‏نافورة (fount, fountain, jet, spout), ‏حقنة (jag, shot), ‏حقن (grout, inject, injection, jab, shoot, staunch), ‏سقط (bring down, cave, come off, dip, dive, down, drop, drop out, failed, fall, go by the board, settle, skip, spill, sprawl, topple, trip, tumble), ‏طفل (bairn, chick, child, chit, clay, infant, kid, lad, nipper, paederast, pederast, small boy, tad, tot, tyke, young), ‏طرح (deduct, excrete, fling, floor, heave, lay, molt, moult, posit, put aside, put away, reject, subtract, subtraction, take away, throw away, toss), ‏رزاز ماء (sprinkling), ‏رش (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, powder, spatter, spirt, splash, splatter, spray, spraying, sprinkle), ‏بخ (spraying). (various references)

Bulgarian 

струя (blast, current, flow, gush, jet, rush, spout, stream, trail, well up), спринцовка (hypo), келеш (fop), бликам (flow, gush, spout, well), пръскам (bespatter, frizz, scatter, shed, shoot, spatter, spit, splash, sprinkle, throw, throw about). (various references)

Chinese 

喷 (Squirted, squirting). (various references)

Czech

střik, stříkat (blow, gush out, spout, syringe), stříkaèka (fire engine, syringe), tryskat (gush out, shoot, spout, spring), trysk (gallop, jet), prcek (tot), šašek (antics, clown, fool, jester, merry andrew, mimic, zany). (various references)

Danish

squirt, sprøjte (garden syringe, syringe). (various references)

Dutch

uitspuiten (blowing), spuiten (control, extrude, extrusion, spray, spray painting, spraying, to bang, to crank, to fix, to jack off, to jack up, to shoot, treatment), sproeien (irrigate, sprinkle, water). (various references)

Esperanto

ŝprucigi. (various references)

Farsi 

فواره کوچک , پراندن (Fly, Jet, Jump, Sling, Whisk), تندروان شدن , اسهال , ادم بیشرم (Saucebox), اب پران , اب رابصورت فواره بیرون دادن , اب دزدک . (various references)

Finnish

ruiskuta (spout), ruisku (fire-engine, sprayer, syringe), ruiskahtaa (spout, spurt). (various references)

French

seringue, mioche, avorton, dose, faire tomber quelques gouttes, injecter, jaillir, asperger, jet de repérage, verser une giclée, petit bout, piqûre, pistolet � eau, projeter un liquide, quelques gouttes, jet. (various references)

German

spritzen (bespatter, dabble, gush, hose, inject, pipe, slosh, spatter, spit, splash, splash up, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, spurt out, sputter, syringe, syringes). (various references)

Greek 

κλυστήρ (syringe), ράντισμα (aspersion, spray, sprinkling), ραντίζω (asperse, atomize, dash, plash, spatter, spray, sprinkle), σύριγγα (syringe), πίδακασ υγρού, εκκλύζω, εκχύνω με ορμή, εκτοξεύω υγρό, αναιδήσ (audacious, barefaced, brassy, cheeky, cocky, fresh, immodest, impudence, impudent, saucy), αδέξιοσ (awkward, clownish, clumsy, dabbler, gauche, heavy-handed, inapt, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy, maladroit, skilless, slouch, unapt, ungainly, unhandy, unskillful). (various references)

Hebrew 

מזרק (injector, syringe), לז� ק (dart, dash, fling, gush out, leap, lunge, pounce, spring, spring forth, start, take off), ל�"תיז סילון, ל�"שפריץ (splash), ל�"זליף (sprinkle), ל� תז (splash, spray, sprinkle), שפריץ, סילון (eaves, gutter, jet, jet plane, nappe, pipe, spout, spurt, stream). (various references)

Hungarian

szemtelen fráter (jackanapes), kilövellő folyadék, folyadéksugár (jet), fecskendő (hosepipe, hypodermic syringe, jet, syringe). (various references)

Indonesian

mencerat. (various references)

Italian

spruzzare (dash, inject, slosh, spatter, spit, splash, spout, spray, sprinkle, spurt, wash), sprizzare (jet, shoot out, spray, spurt), schizzo (dab, draft, shell, sketch, spatter, splash, spurt, stain), schizzetto (squirting cucumber), schizzare (adumbrate, bedabble, dabble, jet, jump, sketch, spatter, splash, splash up, splatter, spring, spurt), zampillo (gush, jet, spout, spurt). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

海鞘 (sea squirt), 水鉄� � (squirt gun, water pistol). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ほや (lamp chimney, sea squirt), みずでっぽう (squirt gun, water pistol). (various references)

Korean 

분출하십시�" (Eject). (various references)

Manx

striggey (draw, drawing off, stripe), strig, spooytey (cascade, spit out, spout, squirting), spooyteragh (bad beer, cascade, spit out, spout), skioot (burst, gush, jet, rush of liquid, spout, spurt), farraneagh (abounding with springs, spring, spurt, squirting, watered), farrane (drinking fountain, fount, fountain, spring, spring-well; breeze, water source). (various references)

Pig Latin

irtsquay.(various references)

Portuguese

seringa (hypodermic). (various references)

Romanian

stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, perfuse, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, water), snob (dude, flunkey, high-brow, pretentious, snob), seringã (syringe), uda (bedew, damp, dip, douse, drench, irrigate, moisten, soak, souse, sparge, splash, spray, sprinkle, stain, steep, wash, water, wet), parvenit (carpet knight, cocktail, mushroom, nouveau riche, parvenu, upstart), jet (douche, gush, gust, jet, spirt, spurt), ţâşniturã (gush, spirt, spout), ţâşni (break forth, burst, flush, gush, splash, spout, spring). (various references)

Russian 

струя (current, flow, jet, jet of, spirt, spout, stream, whiff), шприц (gun, hypodermic, injector, syringe), забрызгивать (bespatter, besprinkle, dabble), пускать струей/ струйка. (various references)

Scottish

steall (a spout of liquid, pour out, spout), spùt (a spout, spout), sgiord. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

ohola osoba (smart aleck), mlaz vode, briznuti (burst into), brizgalica (nozzle), špricati (spurt). (various references)

Spanish

jeringa (douche, syringe), chorro (blast, effluent, flow, gush, jet, puff, spirt, stream, swash, trickle). (various references)

Swedish

stråle (beam, flash, gleam, jet, radio, radius, ray, shaft, spout, spurt, wireless), spruta ut (jet, spout). (various references)

Turkish

sıçratmak (dabble, dash, jump, slop, slosh, slosh on, slush, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter), sıçramak (bounce, bound, buck, capriole, cavort, gambol, hop, jerk, jink, jump, leap, leap up, skip, skitter, spatter, splash, splatter, splutter, spring, sputter, start up, take off, vault), püskürtmek (atomize, beat off, belch, dash, pulverization, pulverize, repel, repulse, spout, spray, spray on, vaporize, vomit), nanemolla, kendini birşey sanan tip (stuffed shirt), fıskiye (fountain, girandole, sprinkler), fışkırtmak (dash, ejaculate, jet, splutter, spout, spurt), fışkırtma (ejaculation, ejaculatory), fışkırmak (belch, blow, burst, ejaculate, erupt, flush, gush out, spout, spurt, well, well forth, well out, well up), fışkırma (emanation, eruption, gush, jet, outburst, spout, spurt), fışkıran su (spout), bücür (brief, dwarf, runt, short, shorty, squat), şırınga (douche, hype, hypotermic needle, injection syringe, syringe, vaccinator). (various references)

Ukrainian

струминка, упорскувати (inject), спринцівка (syringe), шприц (douche, syringe), бити струминкою. (various references)

Welsh

ysgothi (purge, spurt), pibo (pipe), chwistrellu (inject, syringe), chwistrell (syringe). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "squirt": squirted, squirter, squirters, squirting, squirts. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Squirt" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sequor, sguirt, sqirt, squart, squear, squert, squiert, squiet, squiety, squilt, squir, squirk, squirl, squirty, squort, squott. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: quirts.

-1 letter: quirt, quits.

-2 letters: quit, rust, ruts, stir, suit, tuis.

-3 letters: its, rut, sir, sit, sri, suq, tis, tui, uts.

-4 letters: is, it, si, ti, us, ut.

+1 letter: querist, squirts.

+2 letters: aquarist, briquets, quartics, querists, quieters, quilters, quintars, quipster, quitters, quittors, requites, sequitur, squinter, squirted, squirter, turquois.

+3 letters: antiquers, aquarists, critiques, pratiques, quartiles, quatrains, quipsters, quirkiest, quitrents, requisite, requitals, requiters, sequiturs, sobriquet, squattier, squinters, squintier, squirters, squirting, turquoise.

+4 letters: acquisitor, acquitters, antiquarks, briquettes, coquetries, equestrian, inquisitor, marquisate, perquisite, quadratics, quantizers, quartzites, quercetins, questioner, quixotries, quizmaster, requesting, requiescat, requisites, sobriquets, soubriquet, squirmiest, turquoises.