grouse
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɡɹaʊs/
grouse (plural grouse)
- Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
- French: coq de bruyère
- German: Raufußhuhn
- Italian: urogallo, gallo cedrone, pernice
- Portuguese: tetraz, galo-silvestre
- Russian: ря́бчик
- Spanish: urogallo, tetraónino
grouse (grouses, present participle grousing; past and past participle groused)
- To seek or shoot grouse.
grouse (plural grouses)
- A cause for complaint.
grouse (grouses, present participle grousing; past and past participle groused)
- 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.
- 1890, Kipling, The Young British Soldier
- Italian: brontolare, lamentarsi
- Spanish: quejarse
grouse (comparative grouser, superlative grousest)
- (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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