Spruik vs. Tout
Difference Between Spruik and Tout
Spruikverb
To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally.
Toutnoun
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
Toutnoun
A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
Toutnoun
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
Toutnoun
(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
Toutnoun
(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
Toutverb
(transitive) To flaunt, to publicize/publicise; to boast or brag; to promote.
Toutverb
(obsolete) To look upon or watch.
Toutverb
To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
Toutverb
To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
Toutverb
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.
Toutverb
To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
Toutverb
(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
To understand the new London, I lived it. I slept rough with Roma beggars and touted for work with Baltic laborers on the kerb. (Ben Judah on BBC Business Daily, March 1, 2016)Toutnoun
someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
Toutnoun
someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
Toutnoun
one who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
Toutverb
advertize in strongly positive terms;
This product was touted as a revolutionary inventionToutverb
show off
