rouser
See also: Rouser
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]rouser (plural rousers)
- Something very exciting or stimulating.
- One who rouses another from sleep.
- (colloquial, archaic) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
- (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, “[In Faraway Places] 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.