rousie
(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A rouseabout.
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(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…
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