Rousest vs Grousest - What's the difference?

rousest | grousest |

As a verb rousest

is (archaic) (rouse).

As an adjective grousest is

(grouse).

rousest

English

Verb

(head)

(archaic) (rouse)

rouse

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning "to stir up, provoke to activity" is from 1580s; that of "awaken" is first recorded 1590s.

Alternative forms

* rouze (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)

an arousal

(military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .

Verb

(rous)

to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.

to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions

* Atterbury

to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom

* Shakespeare

Night's black agents to their preys do rouse .

* Alexander Pope

Morpheus rouses from his bed.

(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.

* Milton

Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.

To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.

to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase

* Spenser

Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.

* Alexander Pope

Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.

(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul

(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.

(Spenser)

(Shakespeare)

Etymology 2

From carouse, from the phrase "drink carouse" being wrongly analyzed as "drink a rouse".

Noun

(en noun)

an official ceremony over drinks

And the King's rouse the heaven shall bruit again,

Re-speaking earthly thunder. - "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128

A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.

* Tennyson

Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.

wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.

Anagrams

* English ergative verbs

grousest

English

Adjective

(head)

(grouse)

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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