rouser
rouser noun: something very exciting or stimulating.
Noun
rouser (plural rousers)
- Something very exciting or stimulating.
- One who rouses another from sleep or passivity.
- A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
- A roustabout.
- They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’1896, Henry Lawson, “Stragglers”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 85
- The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]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...
Proper noun capitalized: Rouser
Rouser (plural Rousers)
- A surname.
rouser meaning in Tamil and Kannada
rouser in Tamil
- தூண்டுவோன்
rouser in Kannada
- ಮದ್ಯವನ್ನು ತೊಳೆಸುವ ಸೌಟು, ಪಕ್ಕಾ ಸುಳ್ಳು, ಡೋಂಗಿ, ಮಿತಿಮೀರಿದ ಸುಳ್ಳು
Forms of rouser
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | rousers |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Rousers |
Origin of rouser
From rouse + -er.
Words formed from rouser
Words that rhyme with rouser
Questions about rouser
- What does rouser mean?
- Rouser means something very exciting or stimulating.
- What is rouser in Tamil?
- Rouser in Tamil is தூண்டுவோன். See Rouser meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is rouser?
- Rouser can be a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of rouser?
- The plural of rouser is rousers.
Words near rouser in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: rouser (page history and authors); Rouser (page history and authors); Rouser (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rouser (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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