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Exquisite vs Grouse - What's the difference?

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Exquisite is a related term of grouse.


As adjectives the difference between exquisite and grouse

is that exquisite is especially fine or pleasing; exceptional while grouse is (australian|nz|slang) excellent.

As nouns the difference between exquisite and grouse

is that exquisite is (rare) fop, dandy while 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 a verb grouse is

to seek or shoot grouse or grouse can be to complain or grumble.

exquisite

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Especially fine or pleasing; exceptional.
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  • *:Selwyn, sitting up rumpled and cross-legged on the floor, after having boloed Drina to everybody's exquisite satisfaction, looked around at the sudden rustle of skirts to catch a glimpse of a vanishing figure—a glimmer of ruddy hair and the white curve of a youthful face, half-buried in a muff.
  • (lb) Carefully adjusted; precise; accurate; exact.
  • ; far-fetched; abstruse.
  • Of special beauty or rare excellence.
  • Exceeding; extreme; keen, in a bad or a good sense.
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  • Of delicate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; fastidious.
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  • *(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
  • *:his books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite

    • Synonyms

    * beautiful, delicate, discriminating

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Fop, dandy.
  • * 1925 , , Random House, London:2007, p. 42.
    • So striking was his appearance that two exquisites , emerging from the Savoy Hotel and pausing on the pavement to wait for a vacant taxi, eyed him with pained disapproval as he approached, and then, starting, stared in amazement.
  • *:: 'Good Lord!' said the first exquisite .

    • grouse

    English

    (wikipedia grouse)

    Etymology 1

    Attested in the 1530s, as grows , a plural used collectively. Of origin.

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.

    • Verb

    (grous)
  • To seek or shoot grouse.

    • 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.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A cause for complaint.

    • Verb

    (grous)
  • To complain or grumble.
  • *1890 , Kipling,
  • *:If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
    • 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)
  • (Australian, NZ, slang) Excellent.
    • I had a grouse day.
    That food was grouse .
  • * 1991 , , Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002, page 182,
    • They were the grousest ladies she?d ever met.
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    • , title=SPOILER FTF - questions , group=aus.tv.x-files , author=Stujo , date=July 23 , year=1998 , passage=Not a question but the gag of Mulder pissing on the ID4 poster was grouse . citation
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    • , title=FS Ultralight Aircraft , group=aus.motorcycles , author=Leeroy , date=October 4 , year=2003 , passage=I know, but I moved from riding bikes to flying and it is a great move. All riders without a fear of heights I know that flew with me thought it was grouse - and there are no coppers or speed limits up there. citation

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