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rousies

rousies is the plural of rousie.

Meaning of rousie

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...

Questions about rousies

What is rousies the plural of?
Rousies is the plural of rousie.

Words near rousies in the dictionary

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

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