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"text": "The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra have a rain-making ceremony which lasts a week. The men go about with bamboo squirts and the women with bowls of water, and they drench each other or throw the water into the air and cry, \"The rain has come,\" when it drips down on them.",
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"ref": "2007, Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0, page 9",
"text": "Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.",
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"The whole system of flow in the vicinity of a source."
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"ref": "2011, Andy Mulligan, Return to Ribblestrop",
"text": "As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.",
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"ref": "1946, Robert Penn Warren, All the King′s Men, published 2005, page 606",
"text": "He was still there when I came up, a squirt with his hat over one eye and a camera hung round his neck and a grin on his squirt face. I thought maybe I had seen him around town, but maybe not, the squirts look so much alike when they grind them out of journalism school.",
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"An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper."
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"text": "Hey squirt! Where you been?"
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"text": "1986, Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island, entry in Dictionary of American Children′s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit, page 137,\nHurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt” of twelve, and the boys′ activities come out."
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"text": "2010, Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride, Bethany House Publishers, US, page 66,\nHow the child managed to converse and fold at the same time was a marvel, yet the shirt lay in a tidy rectangle by the time she came up for air.\n“Thanks, squirt.” He winked at her and she giggled."
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"word": "pirpana"
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"word": "chąąmąʼii"
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"sense": "small child",
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"Female ejaculate."
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"sense": "Female ejaculate",
"word": "潮吹"
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"word": "潮吹き"
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"text": "The toothpaste squirted from the tube."
},
{
"text": "1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Werewolves, 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121,\nHis servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him."
}
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"ref": "1985, The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia′s Most Deadly Creatures, Murdoch Books, published 2002, page 88",
"text": "It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.",
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{
"sense": "small child",
"word": "ankle-biter"
}
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{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "sprincovka",
"sense": "instrument",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "спринцовка"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "instrument",
"word": "ruisku"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "sucho"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "instrument",
"word": "cichote"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "instrument",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "xiringa"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "instrument",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esguicho"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "instrument",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
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},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "струя"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"word": "suihku"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"word": "ruiskaus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jet"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "cichón"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "cichadura"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "scaird"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "spruzzo"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "schizzo"
},
{
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
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},
{
"code": "oc",
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"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "giscle"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "esguicho"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "jato"
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{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "small, quick stream; a jet",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "sprut"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small child",
"word": "pirpana"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "small child",
"word": "ipana"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small child",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "morveux"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "small child",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "morveuse"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small child",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nifrán"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "small child",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "necre"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "small child",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mezzasega"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "small child",
"word": "chąąmąʼii"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "small child",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "smarkacz"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cháochuī",
"sense": "Female ejaculate",
"word": "潮吹"
},
{
"alt": "しおふき",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "shiofuki",
"sense": "Female ejaculate",
"word": "潮吹き"
}
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"Squirt"
],
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{
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{
"text": "The toothpaste squirted from the tube."
},
{
"text": "1865, Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Werewolves, 2008, Forgotten Books, page 121,\nHis servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him."
}
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"ref": "1985, The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia′s Most Deadly Creatures, Murdoch Books, published 2002, page 88",
"text": "It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "2005, Lisa Heard, NancyRayhorn, 8: Pediatric Sedation, Jan Odom-Forren, Donna Watson, Practical Guide To Moderate Sedation/Analgesia, 2nd Edition, page 171,\nWhen administering the medication, the RN should place the syringe tip along the side of the mouth and slowly squirt the medicine toward the buccal vestibule, not toward the throat."
},
{
"ref": "2011, James Balch, Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures, unnumbered page",
"text": "Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child′s mouth.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"English transitive verbs"
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{
"ref": "2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times",
"text": "Among the hallmarks that all fungi share is the way they eat. They squirt out enzymes to break down nearby organic material and then soak it in. Fungi can also produce vast number of spores, which can survive in all sorts of extreme conditions for years.",
"type": "quotation"
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[
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{
"ref": "2010, Christy Isbell, Mighty Fine Motor Fun: Fine Motor Activities for Young Children, page 81",
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"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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],
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"transitive"
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"categories": [
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{
"ref": "2010, Sonia Borg, Oral Sex She′ll Never Forget, page 9",
"text": "Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"ref": "2000, Eric Brymer, Tom Hughes, Loel Collins, The Art of Freestyle, page 62",
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"type": "quotation"
}
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"Received-Pronunciation"
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "tadaffaqa",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "تَدَفَّقَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baṯaqa",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "بَثَقَ"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "indafaʕa",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "اِنْدَفَعَ"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "blikam",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "бликам"
},
{
"code": "kw",
"lang": "Cornish",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "stifa"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
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],
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "vystříknout"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"tags": [
"perfective"
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"word": "vytrysknout"
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{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "disŝpruci"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "ruiskuta"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "purskahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "ruiskahtaa"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "gicler"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "cichar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "xiringar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "spritzen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "spriccel"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "scaird"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "torotī"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "whakatōkihikihi"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "tarapī"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "jorrar"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "brýzgatʹ",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "бры́згать"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "tuôn"
},
{
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "baḵḵa",
"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "بَخَّ"
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"code": "ar",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "بَجَّسَ"
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{
"code": "kw",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "stifa"
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"code": "cs",
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"word": "vytrysknout"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "ruiskuttaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "purskauttaa"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "ruiskauttaa"
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{
"code": "gl",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "xiringar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "cichar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "scaird"
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"code": "la",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "ēiaculor"
},
{
"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "whakatorotī"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "tarapī"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream",
"word": "esguichar"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "prǎskam",
"sense": "to hit with a rapid stream of liquid",
"word": "пръскам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to hit with a rapid stream of liquid",
"word": "ruiskuttaa"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to hit with a rapid stream of liquid",
"word": "xiringar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to hit with a rapid stream of liquid",
"word": "cichar"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to hit with a rapid stream of liquid",
"word": "phọt"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to throw out or utter words rapidly",
"word": "purskauttaa"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cháochuī",
"sense": "(of a female) to ejaculate",
"word": "潮吹"
}
],
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],
"word": "squirt"
}
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