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▪ I. crouse, a. (and adv.) Sc. and north. dial.|kruːs|
Forms: 3–4 crus, (3 cruse), 4–6 crous, 4– crouse, (4–5 crows(s, 5 crouss(e, 6–9 crowse, 9 croose).
[ME. northern crūs, crous, agreeing in form with MHG., MLG., LG. krûs crisp, MDu. kruys (Kilian) crisp, curly, mod.G. kraus crisp, curled, sullen, crabbed, fractious, mod.Du. kroes (from LG.) crisp, cross, out of humour, EFris. krûs curly, entangled, luxurious, opulent, wanton, jolly. Not found in the earlier stages of any of the langs.; in English only northern, and almost exclusively Sc. (whence the pronunciation with u), though borrowed by Drayton and some of his contemporaries, and then rimed with Eng. words in ou; also found in Yorkshire dial. with aa from ou. As only the figurative senses are here found, it appears to be one of the LG. or Frisian words which appeared in the northern dialect early in the ME. period.]
A. adj.
†1. Angry, irate, cross, crabbed. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 14740 (Cott.) Gains þam he was ful kene and crus, Dos yow, he said, vte of mi hus. Ibid. 21882 (Edinb.) To be fuse, ogain þat come þat es sa cruse. Ibid. 27740 (Cott.) It [wrath] es a cruel thing and crus.
†2. Bold, audacious, daring, hardy, forward, full of defiant confidence, ‘cocky’. Obs. In later use passing insensibly into 3, as when the crowing cock becomes the type.
a1300Cursor M. 3044 (Cott.) O him sal gret men cum and crus. c1340Ibid. 23740 (Trin.) Oure flesshe is euer to synne crous. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 592 None durst be so hardie and so crous To speik of him. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. 142 Duke Humphry's old allies..Attending their revenge, grow wond'rous crouse [rime house]. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 28 He is the noat of the male; as..he is a crouse cock; he is a fat wether. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 8 The wooer he step'd up the house And wow but he was wond'rous crouse. 1808J. Mayne Siller Gun iii. 131 Crouse as a cock in his ain cavie. 1862A. Hislop Prov. Scot. 16 A man's aye crouse in his ain cause. 1883Huddersf. Gloss., Crouse [pron. craas], bold, brave, lively.
3. In somewhat high or lively spirits; vivacious; pert, brisk, lively, jolly.
a1400Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) I. 51 Heare are beastes in this howse, Heare cattes make yt crousse. 1593Drayton Eclogues vii. 73 The little Fly, Who is so Crowse and Gamesome with the flame. 1641Brome Jov. Crew i. Wks. 1873 III. 366 Most crowse, most capringly. 1674Ray N.C. Words 12 Crowse, brisk, budge, lively, jolly. 1792Burns Duncan Gray v, Now they're crouse and cantie baith. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Crowse, brisk. ‘As crowse as a lop.’ 1858M. Porteous Souter Johnny 8 My faith ! she was a wife right crouse.
B. as adv. Boldly, confidently, briskly, vivaciously: esp. in phr. to crack crouse or craw crouse (Sc.), to talk boldly or over-confidently.
a1455Holland Howlat 221 Cryand full crowss. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 145 And after thou hast crackt so crouse, Thy mountains do bring forth a mouse. 1786Burns Twa Dogs 135 The cantie auld folks crackin crouse. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 11 My trouth but ye craw crouse. 1824S. E. Ferrier Inher. lxvi, Some people will maybe not crack quite so crouse by-and-by.
▪ II. crouse
var. of croose v. |