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单词 grousing
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grousingn.

/ˈɡraʊsɪŋ/
Etymology: < grouse v.1 + -ing suffix1.
The action of grouse v.1; grouse-shooting.
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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.
attributive.1860 Ld. Palmerston in Daily News (1895) 27 Apr. 6/4 The Speaker, who has not been quite well, grows as impatient as any official who has hired a grousing moor and cannot get to it.
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