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Definition grouse

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 Medieval Latin word instead. Or simply onomatopoeic, as in Etymology 2.

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Noun

grouse (plural grouse or grouses)

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

Verb

grouse (third-person singular simple present grouses, present participle grousing, simple past and past participle groused)

1. 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)

1. A cause for complaint.

Verb

grouse (third-person singular simple present grouses, present participle grousing, simple past and past participle groused)

1. To complain or grumble.

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)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent.

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