rouser

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English

Etymology

From rouse +‎ -er.

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Noun

rouser (plural rousers)

  1. Something very exciting or stimulating.
  2. One who rouses another from sleep.
  3. (colloquial, archaic) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
  4. (Australia) A roustabout.
    • 1896, Henry Lawson, “Stragglers”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson , →OCLC, page 85:
      They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’
    • a. 1964, Edward Harrington, “ The Swagless Swaggie”, in William [Rossa] Cole, editor, Rough Men, Tough Men: Poems of Action and Adventure, New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press, published 1969, →LCCN, page 150:
      The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]
    • 1967, Graham Jenkin, Two Years on Bardunyah Station: Being an Account of the Experiences of a Jackaroo, Together with Some Poems, etc., Seacombe Heights, South Australia: Pitjantjara Publishers, page 66:
      The aim of the rouser is eventually to become a shearer via the medium of the learner’s pen, and in fact the rousie is really an apprentice shearer; but there is certainly a great gulf between the accomplished prince of the board and the miserable rouseabout in the strange new world of his first shed.

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