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Q: How did the unusual German-influenced words "spruik" and "spruiker" end up in Aussie and New Zealand slang?

ermanenI've recently come across the words spruik and spruiker that are used in Australian and New Zealand slang. Spruik has a quite unusual formation as it is extremely rare in English that a word ends with "uik", or possibly non-existent other than spruik with some exceptions I've mentioned in the fol...

 

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