单词 | grousing |
释义 | grousingn. The action of grouse v.1; grouse-shooting. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > grouse-shooting grousing1771 grouse-shooting1785 dogging1886 1771–72 Batchelor (1773) I. 134 Are you fond of grousing, my lord? I'll show you fine sport this season in my neighbourhood. 1802 R. L. Edgeworth & M. Edgeworth Ess. Irish Bulls xvi. 292 He had in former times gone out a grousing, near Cork, with our hero. 1880 L. B. Walford Troublesome Daughters I. ii. 34 Nearly every August found him in Scotland, either for the salmon-fishing or the grousing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1771 |
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