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rouseabout

rouse |about |ˈraʊzəbaʊt | ▶noun Austral. /NZ an unskilled labourer or odd jobber on a farm, especially in a shearing shed. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: originally dialect in the sense ‘rough bustling person ’, from the verb rouse .

 

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rouseabout

rouse |about |ˈraʊzəbaʊt | ▶noun Austral. /NZ an unskilled labourer or odd jobber on a farm, especially in a shearing shed. ORIGIN mid 19th cent.: originally dialect in the sense ‘rough bustling person ’, from the verb rouse .

 

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