rousie

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rousie

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From rous(eabout) + -ie.

noun rousies

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 she

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@misc{rousie_2026,
  title = {rousie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/rousie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}