rouser
noun
rouser is a noun meaning “Something very exciting or stimulating” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-O-U-S-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of rouser is rousers.
What does rouser mean?
noun
- 1
Something very exciting or stimulating.
- 2
One who rouses another from sleep or passivity.
- 3
archaiccolloquialA stirrer in a copper for boiling wort.
- 4
AustraliaA roustabout.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce rouser?
Rouser has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of rouser
- rousers plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is rouser?
Rouser appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does rouser come from?
From rouse + -er.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).