grouse

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɡɹaʊs/

Noun

grouse (plural grouse)

1. Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.

Translations

• French: coq de bruyère
• German: Raufußhuhn
• Italian: urogallo, gallo cedrone, pernice
• Portuguese: tetraz, galo-silvestre
• Russian: ря́бчик
• Spanish: urogallo, tetraónino

Verb

grouse (grouses, present participle grousing; past and past participle groused)

1. To seek or shoot grouse.

Noun

grouse (plural grouses)

1. A cause for complaint.

Verb

grouse (grouses, present participle grousing; past and past participle groused)

1. To complain or grumble.
   • 1890, Kipling, The Young British Soldier

     If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,

     Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;

     Be handy and civil, and then you will find

     That it's beer for the young British soldier.

Translations

• Italian: brontolare, lamentarsi
• Spanish: quejarse

1930s, origin unk en. Perhaps from British dialect. Adjective

grouse (comparative grouser, superlative grousest)

1. (Australian, NZ, slang) Excellent.

   I had a grouse day.

   That food was grouse.

   • 1991, Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=97XsDK_I5I0C&pg=PA182&dq=%22grousest%22+-intitle:%22%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=nB5vT4qwNcjdmAWr3qmSCw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22grousest%22%20-intitle%3A%22%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false page 182],

     They were the grousest ladies she′d ever met.

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