Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗To cause (something) to be (more) active or to move; to agitate, to stir up. · To stir (a liquid, especially (brewing) beer in the brewing process). · To provoke (someone) to react (for example, in anger or annoyance); to spur; also, to annoy, to tease. · Originally chiefly followed by up: to cause (an emotional reaction, a feeling, etc.); to excite, to incite, to stir up.
An act of causing something to be (more) active or to move; a shakeup, a stir; also (chiefly US), a commotion, a disturbance. · Chiefly of a hawk: an act of shaking the feathers. · Often in the form Rouse and preceded by the: the sounding of a call, usually on the bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed; also, the reveille.
The verb is derived from Late Middle English rousen (“of a hawk: to shake its feathers”); further etymology unknown. Because many terms of French origin are used in falconry, it has been assumed that the Middle English word is derived from Anglo-Norman or French; however, no satisfactory etymon has been found. The following words have been suggested, but are thought by the Oxford English Dictionary to be unlikely due to the differences in meaning: * Anglo-Norman rëuser, roser, ruser, russer, Middle French ruser, and Old French rëuser (“to drive back, repulse”) (modern French ruser). * An Old Norse word from which Danish ruse (“to hurry, rush”) and Swedish rusa (“to hurry, rush”) are derived. Compare row (“quarrel”), possibly related to or derived from this word. The noun is derived from the verb.
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