Meaning of rousie | Babel Free

Definitions

A rouseabout.

Australia, New-Zealand, colloquial

Examples

“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⟳.”

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

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

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