splurts

Bursts out messily

Splurts is the third-person singular of splurt, a verb suggesting something ejecting or spurting out messily, often with a squelching quality: Ketchup splurts from the bottle.

The word blends spurt with splatter or squelch, emphasizing the messy, uncontrolled nature of the release.

Less common than spurt or squirt, splurt appears in informal contexts.

ejection

squirts

Forceful liquid ejections

  • gushesFlows or speaks copiously
  • spraysDisperses liquid finely
  • jetsPressurized fluid streams

bursts · spouts · splatters · shoots · expels · discharges · erupts · blasts · streams · fountains

informal

outbursts

Sudden emotional eruptions

eruptions · interjections · sudden · impulsive · spontaneous · uncontrolled · emotional · verbal · reactions · expressions

sound

squelches

Forcibly silences or suppresses

plops · sloshes · splashes · blusters · burbles · glugs · fizzes · hisses · pops · froths

Opposites
flow continuity

splurtsstreams

Continuous flows of something

flows · trickles · runs · courses · drips

manner of emission

splurtsoozes

Flows out slowly

seeps · leaks · weeps · exudes · percolates

containment

splurtsretains

Continues to possess

contains · holds · absorbs · keeps in · stanches

Family

splurted, splurting, splurt

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G