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Squirts vs Squirty - What's the difference?

squirts | squirty |

As a noun squirts

is .

As a verb squirts

is (squirt).

As an adjective squirty is

(informal) that operates by squirting.

squirts

English

Noun

(head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (squirt)
  • squirty

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (informal) That operates by squirting.
  • * 1917 , John Harrison Dick, Garden Guide, the Amateur Gardener's Handbook
  • Fountains may be of the gurgly, squirty or spray sort; all are pretty. To some the squirty sort have an air of impatience or nervousness
  • * 2005 , Pete McCarthy, The Road to McCarthy
  • Cold Comfort seizes a plastic squirty bottle of tomato ketchup. He's about to inject the red stuff into my pie like a builder squirting insulation
  • * 2011 , Mark Howell, Scallywags (page 12)
  • The woman was busy making the hot chocolates; she was now bent down retrieving the squirty cream from a small box fridge nestled underneath the counter.