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/skwɝt/ · noun
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream..
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.
Chances are you′ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
As the connection was broken, the receiver let out a shrill squirt of static.
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.
Hey squirt! Where you been?
1986, Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island, entry in Dictionary of American Children′s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit, page 137, Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt” of twelve, and the boys′ activities come out.
2010, Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride, Bethany House Publishers, US, page 66, How 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. “Thanks, squirt.” He winked at her and she giggled.
Excuse me, I need to take a squirt.
Use squirt when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Squirt means An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream..
Common synonyms include ankle-biter, spurt, spirt, eject.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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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