pourer
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3.4
- noun
- /ˈpɔːrər/
- Heating, cooling, stunt bee, pourer, stirrer, humming, inspector number seven, lint coordinator, stripe supervisor, mite wrangler.
- a coffee pourer
Examples
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All right, now, take the pourer out of the vodka bottle.
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Twenty-four hours with some wine-pourer chick, and you're fuckin' in love.
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- Put the pourer in the hole you made.
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I looked around and spotted an empty booth, away from the wine pourers and customers.
Fiction book (1997) -
Austin hits a button and an automatic coffee pourer pours a cup.
Fiction book (1999) -
They're attracted to the sweetness, they go in right through the pourer.
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Mr. Tobin said hello to one of the pourers, Sara, by name, an attractive young lady in her mid-twenties.
Fiction book (1997) -
These unprepossessing little houses were built early in the century, recently vanished, for the metal pourers, mold makers, and crate men employed by the Pederson Nail factory.
Fiction book (2002) -
The waiter used a pourer to serve wine at the dinner party.
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She picked up the pourer to fill her glass with fresh orange juice.
Synonyms
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1.0
A container with a handle and spout for holding and pouring drinks
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2.7
A tube with a wide top and narrow bottom for pouring liquids into small openings
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2.7
A small tube with a rubber bulb used to put medicine or liquid in small drops
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2.7
A person or tool that gives water to living things
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3.5
A device that lets out small, controlled drops of water for plants or coffee
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pourer is simply the verb pour plus the ending -er; pour means 'to make liquid flow' and -er means 'one who does something', like in teacher. So a pourer is 'one who pours', whether a person or a small device that lets liquid flow from one container to another.