to squirting
- verb
- /ˈskwɜːrtɪŋ/
:
chorrear
- The chef started squirting ketchup onto the burgers with a squeeze bottle.
I'm blind and I'm listening to as my oxygen is squirting out into space.
- I'm blind and I'm listening to as my oxygen is squirting out into space.
- Juniper, stop squirting the lighter fluid.
- So if you ever see one of my clips where I am squirting like an astronomical unlikely amount.
- I'm stood on top of a bar squirting the soft drinks of people like a water gun.
- So Smashbox primerizer little squirting here and put that all over.
- Don't put a dot a drip squirting over the whole thing.
- It's moisturizing that just squirted all over my watch.
- Basically you're just you're squirting, you're slamming.
Examples
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Our straw has a valve on it so we can shut it on and off so the stuff doesn't come squirting out all over the place.
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Juniper, stop squirting the lighter fluid.
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I'm stood on top of a bar squirting the soft drinks of people like a water gun.
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It, it just sort of squirts out a nozzle.
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It's moisturizing that just squirted all over my watch.
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She was squirting water from a spray bottle to mist the plants.
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He accidentally squirting juice all over the table when he opened the bottle.
Synonyms
26
3.2
To flow out suddenly and forcefully, like blood from a wound
20
4.1
Push a liquid or other substance out of something
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3.7
To flow out quickly and forcefully in a strong stream
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3.1
To come out suddenly in a strong stream
To force liquid out quickly in a narrow stream, like blood or water
To send out a sudden thin stream of liquid
A liquid that shoots out in a strong narrow stream
Flowing out quickly and in large amounts
To burst out suddenly and forcefully like a fountain
Antonyms
Compounds
A vine with long oval fruit that shoots out seeds and juice when ripe and touched
How Forceful
70
3.4
4
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Squirting comes from the quick verb squirt, a word that probably copies the sharp noise of liquid being pushed out of a bottle or water gun. So, to be squirting is to be 'forced out suddenly in a narrow stream', which is why we use it when a liquid shoots out with some force.