spouterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

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.

アナグラム

• Proteus, Porteus, Puertos, -pterous, Troupes, proteus, pourest, store up, Stroupe, petrous, posture, septuor, pouters, troupes