rouseabout
Britishnoun
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To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Smith hadn't turned up, and the next rouseabout was doing his work, to the mutual dissatisfaction of all parties immediately concerned.
From While the Billy Boils by Henry Lawson
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
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
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