Grouses vs Grousest - What's the difference?
grouses | grousest |
(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,
* {{quote-newsgroup
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, date=July 23
, year=1998
, passage=Not a question but the gag of Mulder pissing on the ID4 poster was grouse .
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As a noun grouses
is plural of lang=en.As an adjective grousest is
superlative of grouse.grousest
English
Adjective
(head)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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