Fromspruik +-er(“suffix generating agent noun”).
spruiker (pluralspruikers)
- (Australia) One whospruiks business, atout.
- 1993, Mark St Leon,The Wizard of the Wire: The Story of Con Colleano, Aboriginal Studies Press, Australia,page 9,
- Thespruiker 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”, in Alice Pung, editor,Growing Up Asian in Australia,page338: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 ofspruikers and peddlers.
2009, Kate Darian-Smith,On the Home Front: Melbourne in Wartime: 1939-1945, 2nd edition,page170:At the convention of the Victorian Protestant Federation G. A. Judkins alleged that attractive young girls were used asspruikers, luring Melburnians to gamble.71
- (Australia) One whotoots their own horn.
