squirt Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who is small and insignificant
    pip-squeak; small fry.
  2. noun the occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
    spurt; spirt; jet.
  3. verb cause to come out in a squirt
    force out; squeeze out; eject.
    • the boy squirted water at his little sister
  4. verb wet with a spurt of liquid
    • spurt the wall with water

WordNet

Squirt transitive verb
Etymology
Cf. LG. swirtjen to squirt, OSw. sqvätta, E. squander.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Squirted; present participle & verbal noun Squirting
Definitions
  1. To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice; as, to squirt water.
    The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate. Sir W. Scott.
Squirt intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice; -- said of liquids.
  2. Hence, to throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate. Low L'Estrange.
Squirt noun
Definitions
  1. An instrument out of which a liquid is ejected in a small stream with force. Young.
  2. A small, quick stream; a jet. Bacon.

Webster 1913