Spruik vs. Tout
Spruik and Tout Definitions
Spruik
To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally.
Tout
To promote or praise energetically; publicize
"For every study touting the benefits of hormone therapy, another warns of the risks" (Yanick Rice Lamb).
Tout
To solicit or importune
Street vendors who were touting pedestrians.
Tout
Chiefly British To obtain or sell information on (a racehorse or stable) for the guidance of bettors.
Tout
To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
Tout
Chiefly British To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.
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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).
Tout
Chiefly British One who obtains information on racehorses and their prospects and sells it to bettors.
Tout
Chiefly Scots and Irish Slang One who informs against others; an informer.
Tout
Someone advertising for customers in an aggressive way.
Be careful of the ticket touts outside the arena, they are famed for selling counterfeits.
Tout
A person, at a racecourse, who offers supposedly inside information on which horse is likely to win.
Tout
(colloquial) An informer in the Irish Republican Army.
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Tout
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or similar.
Tout
(card games) In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
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.
Tout
To spy out information about (a horse, a racing stable, etc.).
Tout
To give a tip on (a racehorse) to a person, with the expectation of sharing in any winnings.
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.
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Tout
To act as a tout; to give a tip on a racehorse.
Tout
(intransitive) To look for, try to obtain; used with for.
Tout
(obsolete) To look upon or watch.
Tout
To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.
Tout
To ply or seek for customers.
Tout
To look narrowly; spy.
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.
Tout
To toot a horn.
Tout
To spy out information about, as a racing stable or horse.
Tout
One who secretly watches race horses which are in course of training, to get information about their capabilities, for use in betting.
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.
Tout
One who solicits custom, as a runner for a hotel, cab, gambling place.
Tout
A spy for a smuggler, thief, or the like.
Tout
In the game of solo, a proposal to win all eight tricks.
Tout
The anus.
Tout
Someone who buys tickets to an event in order to resell them at a profit
Tout
Someone who advertises for customers in an especially brazen way
Tout
One who sells advice about gambling or speculation (especially at the racetrack)
Tout
Advertize in strongly positive terms;
This product was touted as a revolutionary invention
Tout
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