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grouse

UK/ɡræus/ US/ɡɹaʊs/ uncommon informal slang
noun (2) verb (2)

noun

1.
2.

popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet

verb

1.
2.

complain

  • “What was he hollering about?”
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Origin

Uncertain; possibly from British dialectal groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian (Scotland)), grosh (northeast Lancashire) and groshy (“having thriving vegetation; juicy and tender; of weather: good for vegetation, rainy”) (Lancashire, Yorkshire), grushie (“having thriving vegetation”) (Scotland); from Scots groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian, obsolete), grush (obsolete), grushie, grushy (“growing healthily or lushly; excellent, very good”) (both archaic), from gross (“lacking refinement, coarse; fat; large”) + -ie (suffix meaning ‘rather, somewhat’).

Phrases

  • black grouse
  • blue grouse
  • Caucasian grouse
  • dusky grouse
  • fire grouse
  • Franklin grouse
  • Franklin's grouse
  • grouse locust

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