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rousie

rousie noun: a rouseabout.

Noun

rousie (plural rousies)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A rouseabout.
    • 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...1967, Graham Jenkin, Two Years on Bardunyah Station: Being an Account of the Experiences of a Jackaroo, Together with Some Poems, etc., Seacombe Heights, South Australia: Pitjantjara Publishers, page...
    • “[Y]ou ever try shearing sheep? Unwilling sheep?” “I’ve worked as rousie, never shearer, but I’ve seen them carry on.”1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Baton Rouge, La.; London: Louisiana State University Press, published 1985, →ISBN

Forms of rousie

pluralrousies

Origin of rousie

From rous(eabout) + -ie.

Questions about rousie

What does rousie mean?
Rousie means a rouseabout.
What part of speech is rousie?
Rousie is a noun.
What is the plural of rousie?
The plural of rousie is rousies.

Words near rousie in the dictionary

  1. rousettes
  2. Rousey
  3. Rouseys
  4. Roush
  5. Roushes
  6. rousie
  7. rousies
  8. rousing
  9. rousingly
  10. rousingness
  11. rousings

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