outgushing

English

Verb

outgushing

1. present participle and gerund of outgush

Noun

outgushing (plural outgushings)

1. That which gushes outward.
   • 1842, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Foot-Prints on the Seashore”, in Twice-Told Tales, volume 2, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC:

     Here, too, may be inscribed thoughts, feelings, desires, warm outgushings from the heart's secret places, which you would not pour upon the sand without the certainty that almost ere the sky has looked upon them the sea will wash them out.