| 单词 | rouseabout swiper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrouseabout swiper C1. General attributive and appositive (chiefly in sense 2a), as rouseabout swiper, rouseabout work, etc.In some quots. passing into adjectival use.figurative in quot. 1884. ΚΠ 1746 [see sense 1]. 1884 Bulletin (Sydney) 28 June 18/3 What Granny would call an ‘embarrassing predicament’, happened recently in the gay rouseabout city of Paris. 1887 J. Farrell How he Died 19 It may be that the rouseabout swiper who rode for the doctor that night Is in Heaven. 1906 F. Sinclair Under North Star & Southern Cross 163 Of the first three [trustees],..marvel of marvels, I (a rouse-about sailor-boy) was the third! 1908 W. R. Ingalls Mineral Industry during 1907 XVI. 407 The average rate of the wages, embracing all classes of labor, is 8s. 9d. per shift, the lowest, or ‘rouse-about’ rate being 8s. 1934 J. Lilico Sheep Dog Mem. 27 [The dogs] would head, lead, huntaway, force and back, though..they were best at rouseabout work. 1974 D. Ireland Burn 49 I stayed with him for a bit and did some rouseabout stuff and got my tucker and a sleep in the feed shed. 2006 Canberra Times (Nexis) 6 May a19 As a kid growing up in Yass, options were a little limited, and when he was put in for some rouseabout work, he stuck with it. < as lemmas |
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