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the unsung exit ramp where pressure becomes performance and liquid finally gets dramatic
means A spout is a tube, lip, or nozzle through which liquid is poured or forced out, or the act of gushing forth — and figuratively, to talk on and on with the same forceful flow.
from From Middle English 'spouten,' to flow or gush, likely related to Middle Dutch 'spouten' and the broader Germanic family of words for spitting and spewing — a cousin of 'spit' and 'spew,' all of them echoing the wet, percussive sound of liquid being expelled under pressure. The figurative sense of a person 'spouting' words came later, the mouth recast as just another nozzle.
- whale tech
- a whale's spout is exhaled breath, not seawater
- tea trick
- a teapot spout's tip is cut sharp to stop drips
- word root
- shares ancestry with spit and spew
- waterspouts
- tornadoes over water are literally called spouts
- old slang
- to pawn something was once to spout it
old faithful — geyser in yellowstone that erupts every 60-110 minutes, shooting water 130 feet high
spouting horn — sea cave blowhole in kauai, hawaii that shoots ocean spray up to 50 feet
steamboat geyser — largest geyser in yellowstone, erupts unpredictably with water reaching 300+ feet