grouse
English
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Etymology 1
Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively. Of unknown origin. Connections to Latin gruta and French grue (“crane”) are generally rejected, but it could be a borrowing from Celtic or a different Lua error in Module:parameters at line 95: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ML" is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF. word instead. Or simply onomatopoeic, as in Etymology 2. Call:
Noun
grouse (plural grouse or grouses)
- Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
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Verb
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- To seek or shoot grouse.
Etymology 2
As a verb from the late 19th century (first recorded by Kipling), as a noun from the early 20th century; origin uncertain, possibly from French groucier (“to murmur, grumble”), in origin onomatopoeic. Compare grutch with the same meaning, but attestation from the 1200s, whence also grouch.
Noun
grouse (plural grouses)
- A cause for complaint.
Verb
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- 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
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Etymology 3
1930s, origin uncertain. Perhaps from British dialect. Compare Lothian Scots groosh (“excellent”), grushie (“having thriving vegetation”); ultimately from gross (“large”).
Adjective
grouse (comparative grouser, superlative grousest)
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent.
- I had a grouse day.
- That food was grouse.
- 1991, Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002, page 182,
- They were the grousest ladies she′d ever met.
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