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Fetching vs Grouse - What's the difference?

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Fetching is a related term of grouse.


As adjectives the difference between fetching and grouse

is that fetching is attractive; pleasant to regard while grouse is (australian|nz|slang) excellent.

As verbs the difference between fetching and grouse

is that fetching is while grouse is to seek or shoot grouse or grouse can be to complain or grumble.

As nouns the difference between fetching and grouse

is that fetching is the act by which something is fetched 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.

fetching

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Attractive; pleasant to regard.
  • * 2000 , Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country , Chapter 1, page 11:
    • I am not, I regret to say, a discreet and fetching sleeper. Most people when they nod off look as if they could do with a blanket; I look as if I could do with medical attention.

    Verb

    (head)
  • *, chapter=6
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=She was so mad she wouldn't speak to me for quite a spell, but at last I coaxed her into going up to Miss Emmeline's room and fetching down a tintype of the missing Deacon man.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is fetched.
  • * 1834 , Evidence on drunkenness: presented to the House of Commons
    • These lumpers were also in the habit of inducing their men during the week to send to their pay-house for fetchings of drink, besides the money they were compelled to spend on Saturday night.

    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.
  • * {{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 . citation
  • * {{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. citation

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