rouser
Noun
Something very exciting or stimulating.
One who rouses another from sleep or passivity.
A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
Usage- Archaic
- Colloquial
A roustabout.
Usage- Australia
- Examples
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They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’
The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]
More examples (1)
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.
Noun
someone who rouses others from sleep
Word forms
rousers