Spruiker vs. Tout
Difference Between Spruiker and Tout
Spruiker➦
(Australia) One who spruiks business, a tout.
0
Tout➦
A tout is any person who solicits business or employment in a persistent and annoying manner (generally equivalent to a solicitor or barker in American English, or a spruiker in Australian English). An example would be a person who frequents heavily touristed areas and presents himself as a tour guide (particularly towards those who do not speak the local language) but operates on behalf of local bars, restaurant, or hotels, being paid to direct tourists towards certain establishments.
0
Spruiker➦
(Australia) One who toots their own horn.
0
Tout➦
To promote or praise energetically; publicize
"For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks" (Yanick Rice Lamb).
0
Tout➦
To solicit or importune
street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
0
Tout➦
Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
0
Tout➦
To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
0
Tout➦
Chiefly British To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
0
Tout➦
One who solicits customers brazenly or persistently
"The administration of the nation's literary affairs falls naturally into the hands of touts and thieves" (Lewis H. Lapham).
0
Tout➦
Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
0
Tout➦
Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.
0
Tout➦
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits.
0
Tout➦
A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
0
Tout➦
(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
0
Tout➦
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
0
Tout➦
(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
0
Tout➦
(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
Mary has been touted as a potential succesor to the current CEO.
0
Tout➦
To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
0
Tout➦
To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
0
Tout➦
To spy out the movements of racehorses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
0
Tout➦
To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
0
Tout➦
(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
0
Tout➦
(obsolete) To look upon or watch.
0
Tout➦
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
0
Tout➦
To ply or seek for customers.
0
Tout➦
To look narrowly; spy.
0
Tout➦
To spy out the movements of race horses at their trials, or to get by stealth or other improper means the secrets of the stable, for betting purposes.
0
Tout➦
To toot a horn.
0
Tout➦
To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.
0
Tout➦
One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
0
Tout➦
One who gives a tip on a race horses for an expected compensation, esp. in hopes of a share in any winnings; - usually contemptuous.
0
Tout➦
One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.
0
Tout➦
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
0
Tout➦
In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
0
Tout➦
The anus.
0
Tout➦
someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
0
Tout➦
someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
0
Tout➦
one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
0
Tout➦
advertize in strongly positive terms;
This product was touted as a revolutionary invention
0
Tout➦
show off
0
