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squirty

squirty

2 6.4
Likely to spray liquid when you press it
  • adjective
  • /ˈskwɜrti/
: chorreante
  • After pressing the nozzle, the squirty ketchup covered the fries perfectly.

Examples

  • The children had fun using the squirty bottle to spray water at each other.

  • Have to get some squirty cream, light, original, extra thick.

  • So I'm going to put some squirty cream and marshmallows on top if I can work out this is a new one.

  • Mimsie: Jazz really doesn't care if I use the squirty bottle.

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  • Squeeze it out of the corner and cut it open so it makes sort of like a little squirty nozzle so I can squirt it straight on.

  • Personally, I would be more likely to settle on the preponderance of lots of lovely big hard squirty guns as the factor rather than the vague potential for some form of evolutionary biological difference.

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  • I felt a bizarre sense of accomplishment in figuring out how to install commercial-sized rolls of toilet paper and the squirty liquid soap dispensers.

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  • I love topping my dessert with squirty cream from the can.

Surface Forms

squirty positive

Morphology

squirty = squirt (transparent) = squirt + y

The adjective is directly formed from the verb/noun 'squirt' with the productive suffix '-y', yielding 'tending to squirt' or 'producing squirts'.

Etymology

Squirty comes from the verb squirt, which means 'a quick push of liquid', plus the ending -y meaning 'likely to' or 'full of'. So something squirty will 'squirt' and send out a quick stream of liquid, like a ketchup bottle or a water toy.