spruik
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- IPA: /spruːk/
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Unknown, likely Germanic – compare Dutch spraak (“speech”).
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spruik (third-person singular simple present spruiks, present participle spruiking, simple past and past participle spruiked)
- (transitive, Australian) To promote a thing or idea to another person, in order that they buy the thing, or accept the idea
- Lennon spruiks laptop 28 years after his death — Headline, Sydney Morning Herald, December 30, 2008
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