spruiker
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (Australian) IPA: [ˈspɹʉːkə]
spruiker (plural spruikers)
- (Australia) One who spruiks business, a tout.
- 1993, Mark St Leon, The Wizard of the Wire: The Story of Con Colleano, Aboriginal Studies Press, Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YSasAeD9D9UC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=BOeWdy4pV1&sig=sMGnSUzd126RyW201UsKltnj1mo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dKJhUOfyMYaTiAediIGIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 9],
- The spruiker then asked, “Now we want to know, will anyone have a go at the heavyweight? If anyone can stand four rounds we will give them a five-pound note and the best bottle of wine in the town”.
- 2008, Sim Shen, Hanoi and Other Homes, Alice Pung (editor), Growing Up Asian in Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=PO8yaEeMOxoC&pg=PA338&lpg=PA338&dq=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=3a7euGFySb&sig=iUo35Ogcwx33eB9vcy4b2BKrmgs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dKJhUOfyMYaTiAediIGIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 338],
- Our days were filled with new sensations – the bite of every dragon fruit, the smell of roasting meat emanating from the dog restaurants near the Red River, the endless chatter of spruikers and peddlers.
- 2009, Kate Darian-Smith, On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945, 2nd Edition, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jUQO9f2dt6UC&pg=PA170&lpg=PA170&dq=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=6in7C89rog&sig=opzys0Tnz1NUEygmVyKxwQQ30XE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dKJhUOfyMYaTiAediIGIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 170],
- At the convention of the Victorian Protestant Federation G. A. Judkins alleged that attractive young girls were used as spruikers, luring Melburnians to gamble.71
- 1993, Mark St Leon, The Wizard of the Wire: The Story of Con Colleano, Aboriginal Studies Press, Australia, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=YSasAeD9D9UC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&source=bl&ots=BOeWdy4pV1&sig=sMGnSUzd126RyW201UsKltnj1mo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dKJhUOfyMYaTiAediIGIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22spruiker%22|%22spruikers%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 9],
- (Australia) One who toots their own horn.
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