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单词 rousie
释义

rousie

/ˈraʊzi /
noun Australian /NZ informal
A person performing unskilled labour or doing odd jobs on a farm, especially in a shearing shed: he’d worked as a rousie in a shearing gang...
  • The rousie was the only one that was getting paid while there was rain, so it was in the interest.
  • He filled the months until going to Otago University planting blackcurrent bushes and as a shearing gang rousie.
  • My first job was as a rousie in a shearing gang.

Origin

Early 20th century: short for rouseabout.

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