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rousers

rousers is the plural of rouser.

Meaning of rouser

Noun

rouser (plural rousers)

  1. Something very exciting or stimulating.
  2. One who rouses another from sleep or passivity.
  3. (archaic, colloquial) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
  4. (Australia) 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

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Proper noun capitalized: Rousers

Rousers

  1. (plural) plural of Rouser

Phrases with rousers

Questions about rousers

What is rousers the plural of?
Rousers is the plural of rouser.
What part of speech is rousers?
Rousers is a proper noun.

Words near rousers in the dictionary

  1. rousedst
  2. rouseite
  3. rousement
  4. rousements
  5. rouser
  6. rousers
  7. rouses
  8. Rouses Point
  9. rousest
  10. rouseth
  11. rousette

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