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- noun Plural form of
spouter .
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Examples
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Great plans had been afoot for Christmas or New Year, but when the grand catastrophe put an end to the career of one of the best "spouters," and caused the retirement of the favorite "singing chambermaid," the affair was postponed till February, when Washington's birthday was always celebrated by the patriotic town, where the father of his country once put on his nightcap, or took off his boots, as that ubiquitous hero appears to have done in every part of the United States.
Jack and Jill Louisa May Alcott 1860
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"spouters," and caused the retirement of the favorite "singing chambermaid," the affair was postponed till February, when Washington's birthday was always celebrated by the patriotic town, where the father of his country once put on his nightcap, or took off his boots, as that ubiquitous hero appears to have done in every part of the United States.
Jack And Jill Alcott, Louisa May, 1832-1888 1902
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a thing so utterly unknown to all other ships that they never heard of the name even; and if by chance they should hear of it, they only grin at it, and repeat gamesome stuff about "spouters" and "blubber-boilers," and such like pretty exclamations.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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But I should think that CNN, MSNBC and ... well, just CNN and MSNBC, really ... would actually like to have the comfort of knowing that their on-air spouters and sermonizers weren't total hypocrites, and would defenestrate hosts who violate basic standards.
Lou Dobbs, evil idiot Michael Tomasky 2010
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“Hot enough for you?” the people on the stage of the Young Vic Theater kept asking one another, a reminder of how weather makes cliché spouters of us all.
London Theater Journal: Back to New York, Onstage at Least - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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“Hot enough for you?” the people on the stage of the Young Vic Theater kept asking one another, a reminder of how weather makes cliché spouters of us all.
London Theater Journal: Back to New York, Onstage at Least - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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There are few spouters, aggressive evangelists for liberalism, among the everyday folk you hang with.
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Hamas/Israel is nothing to do with the BMJ really, it just suits the platitude spouters down at Tavistock Square
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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I am older and probably a lot wiser than you on these matters and I know how difficult it is for all parties, and it does us no good when cheeky spouters come here and intervene between those who at least are offering their heartfelt opinions.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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But shambling forth from that Red Pit come commie zombies: unholy undead spouters of commie ideology.
Obama's Commie Mama 2009
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