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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1653
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Squirt, v. [Late ME and e.m.E. squyrt (c1460).] To void excrement forcefully. — 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i xxv 115.
For those that are costive … it will make them … squirt the length of a hunters staffe
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