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The definition of a grouse is a complaint, or a type of game bird with a chubby body, feathers on its nose and different colored feathers.

(noun)

An example of a grouse is telling a restaurant that the food was not good.
An example of a grouse is the spruce grouse.

Grouse is defined as to complain.

(verb)

An example of grouse is for a student to constantly tell the teacher that the classroom is too hot.

See grouse in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun pl. grouse

any of a family (Tetraonidae) of gallinaceous game birds with a round, plump body, feathered legs, feather-covered nostrils, and mottled feathers, as the ruffed grouse or sage grouse

Origin: Early ModE < ?

intransitive verb groused, grousing

to complain; grumble

Origin: orig. Brit army slang < ?

noun

a complaint

Related Forms:

grouser noun

See grouse in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. grouse grouse or grous·es

Any of various plump, chickenlike game birds of the family Tetraonidae, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere and having mottled brown or grayish plumage.

Origin:

Origin: Origin unknown

intransitive verb groused groused, grous·ing, grous·es

To complain; grumble.

noun

A cause for complaint; a grievance.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps from French dialectal groucer

Origin: , from Old French grouchier; see grudge

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