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
They struck West-o'-Sunday Station, and the boss happened to want a rouseabout to pick up wool and sweep the floor for the shearers.
From Children of the Bush by Lawson, Henry
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 Prichard, Katharine Susannah
"I don't know nothing about yer dog!" protested a rouseabout; "wotyer gettin' on to me for?"
From While the Billy Boils by Lawson, Henry
Tall and freckled and sandy, Face of a country lout; That was the picture of Andy— Middleton's rouseabout.
From On the Track by Lawson, Henry
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