grousern.1
/ˈɡraʊsə/, U.S. /ˈɡraʊsər/ One who goes grousing; a grouse-shooter.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > shooter > [noun] > shooter of other birds
sniper1840
grouser1865
1865 E. Yates Business of Pleasure I. xi. 186 The manufacturing gentry..are tremendously keen grousers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
grousern.2
/ˈɡraʊsə/, U.S. /ˈɡraʊsər/ Hydraulics.
An iron-pointed pile or timber attached to a boat or other floating object as a means of anchorage or of keeping the object in position.
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1876 Rep. Chief of Engineers II. in E. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. (a1884) Suppl. 403
1884 M. Eissler Mod. High Explosives iii. vii. 329 To overcome the motion of the waves, and the current, they are provided with a submarine contrivance (spuds, grousers), which reaches to the bottom of the river.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
grousern.3
/ˈɡraʊsə/, U.S. /ˈɡraʊsər/ One who grumbles or complains.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > displeasure > discontent or dissatisfaction > state of complaining > [noun] > one who complains
grucchildc1230
grutchera1250
groinera1382
musera1382
plainerc1400
plaintiff?a1439
fretter?1504
complainant1525
complainer1526
repiner1551
grudger1552
moaner1628
grumbler1633
querulist1647
maunderer1653
growler1753
grumbletonian1773
smellfungus1807
crib-biter1809
expostulatora1834
squinny1849
groaner1876
grouser1885
squealer1889
gruntler1893
grump1900
grouch1901
screamer1902
Moaning Minnie1934
narker1937
binder1944
1885 J. B. Patterson Life in Ranks 120 Impossible to do anything at all entirely to the satisfaction of a certain class of individuals... This..body of men is commonly designated by their..comrades as the ‘grousers’.
1918 Yorkshire Post 1 Mar. 10/3 Sir John Maxwell on ‘Grousers and Grumblers’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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