rouser

noun 4name 1

Definitions

noun

Something very exciting or stimulating.

One who rouses another from sleep.

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.’

The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]

name

A surname.

Collocations

VERB + ROUSER

aim

ADV.

eventually

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — someone who rouses others from sleep

waker
arouser

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

rabble rouser

Someone or something that tends to inspire mobs; something controversial or provocative.

They proceed steadily from studies of human character and destiny, the proper business of the novelist, to mere outpourings of social and economic panaceas, the proper business of

Example Bank

They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’

Wiktionary

The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]

Wiktionary

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 acc

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, rouser is marked as archaic, colloquial. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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