Groused vs Grouped - What's the difference?
groused | grouped |
(grouse)
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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(group)
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
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, title= (group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
(geometry, archaic) An effective divisor on a curve.
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
(chemistry) A functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule, such as the methyl group.
(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
(military) An air force formation.
(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while at the same time not playing teams that belong to other sets in the division.
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As verbs the difference between groused and grouped
is that groused is past tense of grouse while grouped is past tense of group.groused
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*grouse
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(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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Alternative forms
* groupe (obsolete)Noun
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