Green’s Dictionary of Slang

spout n.3

[SE spout]

1. (also water-spout) the vagina.

[UK]M. Stevenson Wits Paraphras’d 95: I fear’d thy Coxcombs they did cuddle, / Which made my Spouts drop many a puddle.
[UK]‘The Female Pawnbroker’ in Convivialist in Spedding & Watt (eds) Bawdy Songbooks (2011) IV 24: These brokers take things up the spout / [...] / For these spouts, like others, all nght, / For your things they remain ever open.
[UK]‘Randy Mots of London’ in Libertine’s Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 140: When up the spout he stands alone, / And this I’m certain you will own, / The pawnbroker’s balls are very well known, / To the randy mots of London.
[UK]‘The Lady’s Water-Spout’ in Randy Songster in Spedding & Watt (eds) I 209: Her water-spout once had been one of the best, / And many rich qualities too it possest.
[UK] ‘The Water-Spout’ in Rakish Rhymer (1917) 73: For up her spout he could not trace, / In spite of all his balls, sirs!

2. the penis; 1759–67 cit. has double meaning.

[[UK]Sterne Tristram Shandy (1949) 370: You have cut off spouts enow, replied Yorick].
[UK]‘Zodiac’ in Hilaria 118: An Italian castato’s cut-down aqueduct, / A mere spout for a watering pan.
[UK] ‘The Man Who Had Too Much Meat’ in Cuckold’s Nest 23: To hold it up, it was such a weight [...] And when he went out, the boys did shout, / ‘There goes the man with the jolly great ---’.
[UK]‘Ramrod’ Nocturnal Meeting 74: Wait till I get my spout fair into your piss-pot, and I’ll fuck your bloody arse off.
[US] in G. Legman Limerick (1953) 37: A fellow whose surname was Hunt / Trained his cock to perform a slick stunt: / This versatile spout / Could be turned inside out, / Like a glove, and be used as a cunt.
[UK]‘Count Palmiro Vicarion’ Limericks 28: A fellow whose surname was Hunt / Trained his cock to perform a slick stunt: / This versatile spout / Could be turned inside out.
[US](con. 1940s) G. Mandel Wax Boom 115: ‘Tuned in on the radio [...] Axis Sally was talking one of her dry humps at us.’ ‘Shit,’ Gingold said. ‘Exactly what I mean. She wants us to grab our spouts and forget the Krauts.’.
[US]L. Kramer Faggots 321: Think schnitzel, schwantz, sewing machine, slug, spout, sword, tom-tom, wand, wang, water pistol, weener, wienie!, wheezer!, wishbone!, worm!, Ying-Yang!

SE in slang uses

In phrases

up the spout

of a bullet, chambered and ready for immediate firing (rather than still in the magazine).

[UK](con. WW1) A.R. Cooper Born to Fight 77: My hand tightened on my rifle, a bullet ready ‘up the spout’.
[UK]S. Low Boys From Baghdad 246: [M]y 9-mm Browning [...] had one up the spout but with the hammer forward [...] my thumb poised to draw it back and let loose the 13 hollow-point rounds .