squirty

English

Etymology

squirt +‎ -y

Adjective

squirty (not comparable)

  1. (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.
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