Rouser
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Rouser is a noun meaning Something very exciting or stimulating.
Meaning
Something very exciting or stimulating.
More Meanings
- One who rouses another from sleep.
- (colloquial, archaic) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
- (Australia) A roustabout.
Example Sentences
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; […]
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.
Word Forms
- rousers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rabble, excitant, invigorant, headrush, excitive, rush.
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