Quirted vs Squirted - What's the difference?
quirted | squirted |
(quirt)
A rawhide whip plaited with two thongs of buffalo hide.
*about 1900 , O. Henry,
*:He sprang into the saddle easily as a bird, got the quirt from the horn, and gave his pony a slash with it.
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* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter I:
* 1973 , (Kyril Bonfiglioli), Don't Point That Thing at Me , Penguin (2001), page 96:
*:She raised the handle of her beautiful quirt to her eyes and scanned the Western horizon.
* 1994 , (Cormac McCarthy), The Crossing :
(squirt)
An instrument from which a liquid is forcefully ejected in a small, quick stream.
A small, quick stream; a jet.
* 2007 , Peter Elst, Sas Jacobs, Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 ,
(slang) An annoyingly pretentious person; a whippersnapper.
* 1946 , , 2005,
(UK, US, Australia, slang) A small child.
* 1986 , Alethea Helbig, Agnes Perkins, Cutlass Island'', entry in ''Dictionary of American Children?s Fiction, 1960-1984: Recent Books of Recognized Merit ,
* 2010 , Karen Witemeyer, A Tailor-Made Bride , Bethany House Publishers, US,
(slang) Female ejaculate
(of a liquid) To be thrown out, or ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
* 1865 , , The Book of Werewolves , 2008, Forgotten Books,
(of a liquid) To cause to be ejected, in a rapid stream, from a narrow orifice.
* Sir Walter Scott
* 1985 , The Living Australia, Dangerous Australians: The Complete Guide to Australia?s Most Deadly Creatures , 2002, Murdoch Books,
* 2005 , Lisa Heard, NancyRayhorn, 8: Pediatric Sedation'', Jan Odom-Forren, Donna Watson, ''Practical Guide To Moderate Sedation/Analgesia , 2nd Edition,
* 2011 , James Balch, Mark Stengler, Prescription for Natural Cures ,
To hit with a rapid stream of liquid.
* 2010 , Christy Isbell, Mighty Fine Motor Fun: Fine Motor Activities for Young Children ,
(figuratively) To throw out or utter words rapidly; to prate.
(intransitive, slang, vulgar, of a female) To ejaculate.
* 2010 , Sonia Borg, Oral Sex She?ll Never Forget ,
As verbs the difference between quirted and squirted
is that quirted is past tense of quirt while squirted is past tense of squirt.quirted
English
Verb
(head)quirt
English
Noun
(en noun)- He paused a moment and flicked a sage-brush with his quirt .
- He rode his horse with the reins tied and he wore a pistol at his belt and a plain flatcrowned hat of a type no longer much seen in that country and he wore tooled boots to his knees and carried a quirt .
squirted
English
Verb
(head)squirt
English
Noun
(en noun)page 9,
- Chances are you?ll get a squirt of citrus juice in your eye.
page 606,
- 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?
page 137,
- Hurd returns with Mal, Mr. Eph, and Gumbo, the “town squirt ” of twelve, and the boys? activities come out.
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.
Synonyms
* (instrument that forcefully ejects liquid) * * (annoyingly pretentious person) * (small child)Derived terms
* sea squirt * squirt bottleVerb
(en verb)- The toothpaste squirted from the tube.
page 121,
- His servants would stab a child in the jugular vein, and let the blood squirt over him.
- The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek, and squirted the juice into the fire grate.
page 88,
- It can squirt this poison in jets up to a distance of one metre and usually aims at the eyes of its victim.
page 171,
- When 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.
unnumbered page,
- Use a dropper and squirt the desired amount in the side of the child?s mouth.
page 81,
- Ask the child to squirt the target with water.
page 9,
- Women who squirt rhapsodize about the experience, reporting that it elicits feelings of empowerment and a deeper connection to their own bodies.