spruik

vi.<澳俚>(尤指推销员或节目主持人)演说,当众滔滔不绝地讲话

发音

其它 /spɹuːk/

词形变化

spruiked spruiking spruiks 三单 spruiks spruiking 现在分词 spruiked 过去式 spruiked 过去分词

别名

sprook

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally.

    澳大利亚 及物

词源

Unknown, likely Germanic. Compare Dutch spraak (“speech”), spreek (“speak”), spreuk (“saying”), sprook (“a story, fiction, tale, or false idea”). First recorded in the late 1890s and early 1900s, suggesting a possible derivation from Afrikaans (i.e. brought back by soldiers returning from the Boer War). With the exception of a few early uses of sprook, the word's spelling has been fixed since it first entered the language. The uncommon ⟨ui⟩ digraph provides further evidence for an Afrikaans or Dutch origin.

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