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Definition of splurt in English: splurtnounspləːtsplərt informal 1A sudden gush of liquid. Example sentencesExamples - In a splurt of blood, the battle was suddenly over.
- 1.1 A sudden brief outburst of something.
I let out a splurt of laughter Synonyms outburst, burst, eruption, flare-up, explosion, outbreak, blow-up
verb spləːtsplərt [with object]informal Push out with force; spit out. the rear wheels splurted gravel Example sentencesExamples - The shelf in the bathroom was littered with tins of hair spray, styling mousse, shampoo and conditioner, blobs of each of which had been splurted onto every available surface.
- In one swift movement Carver plunged the knife forward and embedded it in David's eye, splurting blood across the cliff wall.
- I occasionally have a whiz round with the Hoover and splurt a bit of cleaning fluid down the loo, but aside from that I don't have much to do apart from opening the post and giving the odd guitar lesson.
- He was splurting some inane fact about cricket pads.
- Now, as they're both house trained this shouldn't provide too much of a problem, except that they both seem to have developed a habit of perching on the side of their litter tray, and splurting their ‘goodness’ over the edge.
- The former lead singer for the band was splurting out an insult to a goth girl in her audience for being a goth.
- LiveJournal is being very mysterious: it's once again not syndicated anything from here for days, and now it's suddenly splurted out several days of posts at once.
- ‘I didn't know you had a taste for wine, Angelina,’ I finally splurted out, trying to sound as smooth as I could.
Origin Late 18th century: imitative. Definition of splurt in US English: splurtnounsplərt informal 1A sudden gush, especially of saliva. Example sentencesExamples - In a splurt of blood, the battle was suddenly over.
- 1.1 A sudden brief outburst of something.
I let out a splurt of laughter Synonyms outburst, burst, eruption, flare-up, explosion, outbreak, blow-up
verbsplərt [with object]informal Push out with force; spit out. the rear wheels splurted gravel Example sentencesExamples - LiveJournal is being very mysterious: it's once again not syndicated anything from here for days, and now it's suddenly splurted out several days of posts at once.
- The former lead singer for the band was splurting out an insult to a goth girl in her audience for being a goth.
- I occasionally have a whiz round with the Hoover and splurt a bit of cleaning fluid down the loo, but aside from that I don't have much to do apart from opening the post and giving the odd guitar lesson.
- ‘I didn't know you had a taste for wine, Angelina,’ I finally splurted out, trying to sound as smooth as I could.
- Now, as they're both house trained this shouldn't provide too much of a problem, except that they both seem to have developed a habit of perching on the side of their litter tray, and splurting their ‘goodness’ over the edge.
- He was splurting some inane fact about cricket pads.
- In one swift movement Carver plunged the knife forward and embedded it in David's eye, splurting blood across the cliff wall.
- The shelf in the bathroom was littered with tins of hair spray, styling mousse, shampoo and conditioner, blobs of each of which had been splurted onto every available surface.
Origin Late 18th century: imitative. |