SQUIRT. To make a showy recitation.
He'd rather slump than squirt.
Poem before Y.H., p. 9.
Webster has this word with the meaning, "to throw out words, to let fly," and marks it as out of use.
SQUIRTINESS. The quality of being showy.
SQUIRTISH. Showy; dandified.
It's my opinion that these slicked up squirtish kind a fellars ain't particular hard baked, and they always goes in for aristocracy notions.—Robb, Squatter Life, p. 73.
SQUIRTY. Showy; fond of display; gaudy.
Applied to an oration which is full of bombast and grandiloquence; to a foppish fellow; to an apartment gayly adorned, &c.
And should they "scrape" in prayers, because they are long
And rather "squirty" at times.
Childe Harvard, p. 58.
STAMMBOOK. German. A remembrance-book; an album. Among the German students stammbooks were kept formerly, as commonly as autograph-books now are among American students.