grouse

Word family

Related topics: Birds

grouse1 /ɡraʊs/ noun

[countableC, uncountableU] (plural grouse)HBB a small bird that is hunted and shot for food and sport, or the flesh of this bird 松鸡；松鸡肉

the grouse shooting season

捕猎松鸡的季节

roast grouse

烤松鸡

2 [countableC] informalCOMPLAIN a complaint 怨言，牢骚

His main grouse is that he isn’t paid enough.

他主要的不满就是工资不够高。

Examples from the Corpus

grouse• Meanwhile, a grouse landed in an apple tree beside me, then flew down to the ground and walked away.• It is the same for sage grouse.• This recipe works well with any of the small birds-quail, squab, grouse.• Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.• As we walked, grouse rose from the heather, calling out in alarm, .

grouse2 verb [intransitiveI]

informalCOMPLAIN to complain about something 抱怨，发牢骚 SYN moan

grouse about

I haven’t really got much to grouse about.

我其实没什么好抱怨的。

Examples from the Corpus

grouse• "Everything tastes the same, " George groused.• So Brick, who had at first dismay, now had no room to grouse.• He nagged at Fritz, he groused about the dull food, he broke some plates against the wall.• There was some grousing about the way the game had gone but, for the most part, we were pretty good.• They do not have too much to grouse about, though: the family's income is about 1,600 yuan a month.• Stuyvesant, grousing, harassed the exiles and hampered their efforts to buy homes and cemetery plots.

Origin grouse1

(1500-1600) Perhaps from Latin gruta, name of a type of bird hunted for food

grouse2

(1800-1900) Perhaps from Old French grouchier; → GROUCH1

grouse1 noungrouse2 verb

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