rouseabout
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed.
From Time Magazine Archive
You go about in old clothes as if you hadn't a penny to bless yourself with; and I might be anybody's rouseabout for the look of me.
From The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard
I think John the Baptist was a rouseabout, don't you?
From Captivity by M. Leonora Eyles
If a shearer or rouseabout was good at argument, and a bit of a politician, he hadn't to slave much at Thompson's shed, for Baldy would argue with him all day and pay for it.
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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