Meaning & use
Spouting
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Talking at length, often boastfully or tediously; shooting out forcefully, as liquid does.
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He kept spouting statistics no one had asked for.
Water was spouting from the broken pipe onto the pavement.
A note on using this word
The figurative sense, of talking on and on, draws on the image of water forced out under pressure.
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