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squirty

adj
/skwɜː(ɹ)ti/

Etymology

From squirt + -y.

  1. inherited from squirten
  2. suffixed as squirty — “squirt + y”

Definitions

  1. That operates by squirting.

    • Fountains may be of the gurgly, squirty or spray sort; all are pretty. To some the squirty sort have an air of impatience or nervousness […]
    • Cold Comfort seizes a plastic squirty bottle of tomato ketchup. He's about to inject the red stuff into my pie like a builder squirting insulation […]
    • The woman was busy making the hot chocolates; she was now bent down retrieving the squirty cream from a small box fridge nestled underneath the counter.

  2. Reminiscent of squirting (especially of sound)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for squirty. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA