Curse vs Grouse - What's the difference?
curse | grouse |
A supernatural detriment or hindrance; a bane.
A prayer or imprecation that harm may befall someone.
The cause of great harm, evil, or misfortune; that which brings evil or severe affliction; torment.
* Shakespeare
A vulgar epithet.
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(lb) To place a curse upon (a person or object).
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed' the fate which had assigned such a duty, ' cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
To call upon divine or supernatural power to send injury upon; to imprecate evil upon; to execrate.
*Bible, (w) xxii. 28
*:Thou shalt notcurse the ruler of thy people.
(lb) To speak or shout a vulgar curse or epithet.
(lb) To use offensive or morally inappropriate language.
*Bible, (w) xxi. 74
*:Then began he to curse and to swear.
*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:His spirits hear me, / And yet I need must curse .
To bring great evil upon; to be the cause of serious harm or unhappiness to; to furnish with that which will be a cause of deep trouble; to afflict or injure grievously; to harass or torment.
*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
*:On impious realms and barbarous kings impose / Thy plagues, and curse 'em with such sons as those.
Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
To seek or shoot grouse.
To complain or grumble.
*1890 , Kipling,
*:If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
(Australian, NZ, slang) Excellent.
* 1991 , , Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002,
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, passage=Not a question but the gag of Mulder pissing on the ID4 poster was grouse .
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As verbs the difference between curse and grouse
is that curse is while grouse is to seek or shoot grouse or grouse can be to complain or grumble.As a noun grouse is
any of various game birds of the family tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere or grouse can be a cause for complaint.As an adjective grouse is
(australian|nz|slang) excellent.curse
English
Noun
(wikipedia curse) (en noun)- The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance.
Sam Leith
Where the profound meets the profane, passage=Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses ", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.}}
Derived terms
* curse of ScotlandVerb
Synonyms
* (sense) swearAntonyms
* blessAnagrams
* * * ----grouse
English
(wikipedia grouse)Etymology 1
Attested in the 1530s, as grows , a plural used collectively. Of origin.Noun
(en-noun)Verb
(grous)Etymology 2
As a verb from the late 19th century (first recorded by Kipling), as a noun from the early 20th; 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.Verb
(grous)- Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;
- Be handy and civil, and then you will find
- That it's beer for the young British soldier.
Etymology 3
1940s, origin .Adjective
(er)- I had a grouse day.
- That food was grouse .
page 182,
- They were the grousest ladies she?d ever met.
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