Pourer

pour  (pôr, pr)

v. poured, pour·ing, pours

v.tr.

1. To make (a liquid or granular solid) stream or flow, as from a container.

2. To send forth, produce, express, or utter copiously, as if in a stream or flood: poured money into the project; poured out my inner thoughts.

v.intr.

1. To stream or flow continuously or profusely.

2. To rain hard or heavily.

3. To pass or proceed in large numbers or quantity: Students poured into the auditorium.

4. To serve a beverage, such as tea or coffee, to a gathering: We need someone to pour.

n.

A pouring or flowing forth, especially a downpour of rain.

Idiom:

pour it on Informal

1. To move or perform an activity at maximum speed or intensity.

2. To speak or express oneself continuously or elaborately.

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[Middle English pouren, perhaps from Old North French purer, to sift, pour out, from Latin prre, to purify, from prus, pure; see peu- in Indo-European roots.]

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pourer n.