Rousie

Quick meaning: Rousie is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A rouseabout.

Meaning

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A rouseabout.

Example Sentences

Kate, their young rousie, threw the fleece up and over the table.

“[Y]ou ever try shearing sheep? Unwilling sheep?” “I’ve worked as rousie, never shearer, but I’ve seen them carry on.”

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

• rousies

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