rouseabout
Britishnoun
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To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; That was the picture of Andy— Middleton's rouseabout.
From On the Track by Henry Lawson
And presently I saw the little "tin" house where the out-station boss lived, and the tent I shared with my chum the "rouseabout."
From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts
"I don't know nothing about yer dog!" protested a rouseabout; "wotyer gettin' on to me for?"
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
While we sat there, a rouseabout came to the door.
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
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