rouser

Definition

Something very exciting or stimulating.

Etymology

From rouse + -er.

Example Sentences

• "They are all shearers, or at least they say they are. Some might be only ‘rousers.’"
• "The shearers threw some blankets in / To make another swag, / The rousers gave a billycan / And brand new tucker bag; […]"
• "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 miserable rouseabout in the strange new world of his first shed."