Fab vs Grouse - What's the difference?
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fabulous (great or spectacular). The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, third edition, Houghton Mifflin Company, p. 652 (ISBN 0-395-44895-6)
A manufacturing plant which fabricates items, particularly silicon chips.
fabricate, especially in the context of fabbers
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,
* {{quote-newsgroup
, 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 .
* {{quote-newsgroup
, 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.
Fab is a related term of grouse.
As an abbreviation fab
is (brazilian air force).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 a verb grouse is
to seek or shoot grouse or grouse can be to complain or grumble.As an adjective grouse is
(australian|nz|slang) excellent.fab
English
Etymology 1
From , by shorteningAdjective
(fabber)Derived terms
* fabbyEtymology 2
From and its derived terms, by shorteningNoun
(en noun)- Hundreds were put out of work when the chip fab shut down.
Synonyms
* fabberVerb
(fabb)- It uses digital data from a computer to “fab ” products and models of new products. [http://www.ennex.com/~fabbers/publish/FAB-ulous.asp]
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Anagrams
* English clippings ---- ==Volapük==Declension
(vo-decl-noun) ----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 .
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- They were the grousest ladies she?d ever met.
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