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▪ I. squirting, vbl. n.|ˈskwɜːtɪŋ|
Also 4 swirting.
[f. squirt v.]
The action of the verb; that which is squirted or spirted. Also fig.
c1325Gloss. W. de Bibbesw. in Wright Voc. 173 Asset avera de esclautez, of swirtingges. Ibid., Un garsoun esclaté, bilagged wit swirting. 1598Florio, Squacquarata, a dashing or blurring, a squattring, a squirting. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 361 Betwixt euery squirting, giue him liberty to hold downe his head. 1611Cotgr., Injection,..a squirting, or conueying of a liquid medicine, by Syringe, &c. into some part of the bodie. 1678Phillips (ed. 4), Siringe,..an Instrument for the squirting of liquor into any wound. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 295 Party zeal..makes its last retreat in..occasional squirtings of the press.
▪ II. squirting, ppl. a.|ˈskwɜːtɪŋ|
[f. as prec.]
1. Mean, contemptible, insignificant, trifling.
a. Of persons. Now dial.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse Wks. (Grosart) II. 92 Our Players are not as the players beyond sea, a sort of squirting baudie Comedians. 16022nd Pt. Return Parnass. v. iv. 2174 Thou and thy squirting boy Endimion, Lies slauering still vpon a lawlesse couch. a1658Cleveland Cl. Vind. (1677) 107 Not such a squirting Scribe as this, that's troubled with the Rickets, and makes penny-worths of History. 1719Boyer Dict. Royal ii, A squirting (or pitiful) Fellow, un pauvre homme, un petit genie. 1803T. Creevey in C. Papers (1904) I. 14 Such pitiful, squirting politicians as this accursed Apothecary. 1887S. Cheshire Gloss. 370 A little squirtin' homnithom [= dwarf].
†b. Of things. Obs. rare.
1589? Lyly Pappe w. Hatchet E b, These fellowes can abide no pompe, and yet you see they cannot be without a little squirting plate. a1625Fletcher Love's Pilgr. i. i, Did I or Mr. Dean of Civil..Ere reach our dignities in cuerpo, thinkst thou? In squirting hose and doublet? 1628Wither Brit. Rememb. 185 Their noblest mark is dieting a brace Of handsome Nags, to run a squirting race.
2. Issuing in a squirt or jet.
a1694Urquhart's Rabelais iii. xxv. 211 On condition that he..should instantly with his squirting Spittle inluminate his Mustaches.
3. That ejects a jet-like stream of liquid.
1735Clare Motion Fluids 63 The common squirting Fire-Engine..is the Frame of a Lifting-pump, wrought by..Leavers. 1744Desaguliers Exper. Philos. II. 510 Which sort of Engines throwing the Water by Spirts are commonly, and not improperly, called Squirting Engines. 1821Scott Kenilw. xxxviii, We shall never find them to-night amongst all these squirting funnels, squirrel-cages, and rabbit-holes. 1833Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1851) III. xix. 375 Princess Victoria,..when asked on her visiting Chatsworth some months ago, which of all the things she had seen she liked best,..said it was the squirting tree.
4. squirting cucumber, the spirting cucumber, Ecbalium agreste († Momordica Elaterium).
1802Pinkerton Mod. Geogr. I. 278 The Momordica elaterium, squirting cucumber,..occurs in a truly wild state..in Provence and Languedoc. 1849Balfour Man. Bot. §872 The Wild or Squirting Cucumber is so called on account of the force with which its seeds are expelled when ripe. 1898Rev. Brit. Pharm. 4 There are other articles in this category—e.g., chalk, cevadilla, and squirting-cucumber. |