spouter

spouter

English

Etymology

From spout +‎ -er.

Noun

spouter (plural spouters)

  1. Anything that spouts.
  2. Someone who rants or talks nonsense at length.
    a spouter of hateful rhetoric
  3. (now rare) A whale that breathes by spouting; especially a sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
  4. (now historical) A vessel used in whaling.
    Synonyms: whaleboat, whaleship, whaler
    • 1930, Captain Dingle, “In Conclusion” (chapter 34), in Seaworthy, Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 270:
      Peter Edwards was bragging all around the little port about his boy, shanghaied off to sea on his first voyage and coming home skipper of a bung-full spouter.
    1. (rare) A person engaged in whaling; a skillful whaler.

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