Grouse vs Groan - What's the difference?
grouse | groan |
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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A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
A low, guttural sound uttered in frustration or disapproval.
To make a groan.
(obsolete) To strive after earnestly, as if with groans.
* Herbert
As nouns the difference between grouse and groan
is that 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 while groan is a low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.As verbs the difference between grouse and groan
is that grouse is to seek or shoot grouse or grouse can be to complain or grumble while groan is to make a groan.As an adjective grouse
is (australian|nz|slang) excellent.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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groan
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- We groaned at his awful jokes.
- The wooden table groaned under the weight of the banquet.
- Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, / Or that which groaneth to be so.