Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which rouses or excites to action.
- noun That which rouses attention or interest; something exciting or astonishing: as, the speech was a rouser; that's a rouser (an astonishing lie).
- noun Something to rouse with; specifically, in brewing, a stirrer in the hop-copper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, rouses.
- noun colloq. Something very exciting or great.
- noun (Brewing) A stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Something very
exciting or great. - noun One who
rouses another fromsleep . - noun colloquial, archaic A
stirrer in acopper for boilingwort .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who rouses others from sleep
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Examples
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The principal among the many distractions is the "rouser," a squib peculiar to Lewes, to which the bonfire boys (who are, by the way, in great part boys only in name, like the postboys of the past and the cowboys of the present) have given laborious nights throughout the preceding October.
Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas
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After this "rouser," as he called it, he sat down again, and almost immediately fell fast asleep.
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After this "rouser," as he called it, he sat down again, and almost immediately fell fast asleep.
Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago 1859
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He is what he is, a new kind of hybrid politician — part CEO with prodigious management abilities, part rabble-rouser with a fierce ideological following — who is both impressive and disturbing in his own right.
India’s New Face 2009
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He is what he is, a new kind of hybrid politician — part CEO with prodigious management abilities, part rabble-rouser with a fierce ideological following — who is both impressive and disturbing in his own right.
India’s New Face 2009
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Vendola's idiom - part university professor, part rabble-rouser, part abstract poet - distinguishes him from the predictable rhetoric of Italian politicians.
Nichi Vendola, a gay, ex-communist governor, becomes the unlikely rival to Italy's Berlusconi Jason Horowitz 2011
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Titled "The Face of the Enemy," the webisodes run about three to six minutes each and revolve around Felix Gaeta, Lieutenant Junior Grade, cripple, and general rubble-rouser.
We will face this enemy together pabba 2009
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That early American rabble-rouser, Thomas Paine, wrote “Rights of Man”.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » “Rights”: I Do Not Think That Word Means What You Think It Means 2010
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It just seemed fitting to start with something like that, before turning to a full-tilt carnival-style rouser, one that lifted Lunise even further off her feet, and sent one of her earrings flying.
Michal Shapiro: Haitian Carnival Spirit With RAM (VIDEO) Michal Shapiro 2011
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He is what he is, a new kind of hybrid politician — part CEO with prodigious management abilities, part rabble-rouser with a fierce ideological following — who is both impressive and disturbing in his own right.
India’s New Face 2009
qroqqa commented on the word rouser
But I could not, myself, seek solace in the notion that here was just a good old ten-twenty-thirty rouser.
—Dorothy Parker, review of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 1931
I have no idea what either of these words mean, and I'm refraining listing 'ten-twenty-thirty' as a newly-discovered word on the questionable grounds that it's not a word, but a syntactic combination linked by hyphens. Either way, I still don't know what any of it means.
November 13, 2008