grouse

noun

/ɡraʊs/

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[countable, uncountable]
(plural grouse)
a bird with a fat body and feathers on its legs, which people shoot for sport and food; the meat of this bird
- grouse shooting
- grouse moors
- roast grouse
Topics Foodc2, Birdsc2
[countable] (informal) a complaint

Word Originnoun sense 1 early 16th cent.: perhaps related to medieval Latin gruta or to Old French grue ‘crane’. noun sense 2 early 19th cent.: of unknown origin; compare with grouch.

grouse

verb

/ɡraʊs/

[intransitive, transitive] (informal)

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they grouse	/ɡraʊs/ /ɡraʊs/
he / she / it grouses	/ˈɡraʊsɪz/ /ˈɡraʊsɪz/
past simple groused	/ɡraʊst/ /ɡraʊst/
past participle groused	/ɡraʊst/ /ɡraʊst/
-ing form grousing	/ˈɡraʊsɪŋ/ /ˈɡraʊsɪŋ/

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grouse (about somebody/something) | (+ speech) to complain about somebody/something in a way that other people find annoying synonym grumbleTopics Personal qualitiesc2
Word Originverb early 19th cent.: of unknown origin; compare with grouch.