Other forms: squirts, squirting, squirted
To squirt is to send liquid out in a thin fast jet. Squirt water, it squirted everywhere, squirt of lemon.
It is a small forceful jet, which is what separates it from pour or spray. As a noun, a squirt is one such jet: a squirt of washing-up liquid. Informally, a squirt is a small and annoying person, usually a child, and it is dismissive but not cruel. Note squirty, and squirt gun, which is the American name for what Britain calls a water pistol.
1verbsquirtTo send liquid out in a thin fast jet.
“The little boy squirted his sister with a water pistol.”
2nounsmallA small jet of liquid.
“A squirt of lemon makes the whole thing work.”
squirt is a jet of liquid.
Middle English squirten is probably imitative, and English has no clear ancestor for it. It belongs with spurt, spirt and squish, all of them coined by ear rather than descended.
Middle English
squirten
English, today
squirt
From Middle English squirten, squyrten, of uncertain origin; probably imitative of the sound. Akin to swirl. Compare Low German swirtjen (“to squirt”) and Swedish water onomatopoeias skvala, skvalp, skvimpa, and skvätta; skvetta; and skvette.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire