单词 | rousie |
释义 | rousien. Australian and New Zealand colloquial. = rouseabout n. 2a. Cf. rouser n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > [noun] > sheep herding > shepherd > type of sheep-reeve1450 page1590 shepherdling1605 under-shepherda1640 lad1717 lamber1809 mayoral1879 hurdle-man1880 motherer1890 rouser1896 rousie1906 boundary-keeper1933 1906 Bull. (Sydney) 22 Feb. 14/3 The local ‘rousies’ are gluttons..after living for a month or two in a shearers' hut. 1956 F. B. Vickers First Place to Stranger ix. 135 He tried to run all the rousies till Ivor stopped him. 1978 D. G. Jardine Shadows on Hill 132 He slips off his coat and hands it to a rousy and nods to the classer. 2009 F. McDonald Red Dust xx. 188 One of the rousies, Paula,..swept up the belly and threw it into a wool butt. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1906 |
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