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noun ɡraʊsɡraʊs 1A medium to large game bird with a plump body and feathered legs, the male being larger and more brightly coloured than the female. Family Tetraonidae (or Phasianidae): several genera, especially Lagopus and Tetrao Example sentencesExamples - Pair up female and male black grouse that have no chemistry - the female isn't interested in the male.
- Which was the fastest game bird in Europe - the golden plover or the grouse?
- The black grouse is Scotland's second-most endangered bird after centuries of habitat destruction and hunting.
- The first year of the project saw 30 young black grouse released in October 2003.
- Business as usual is what has driven the greater sage grouse to its precarious brink.
- 1.1mass noun The flesh of the grouse as food.
Example sentencesExamples - I try to replicate my early success by bringing out the abattis à la bourguignonne: giblets of duck, pigeon, and grouse cooked in a red-wine sauce.
- The grouse had been hung too long and cooked too long.
- Between you and me, I had too much grouse and red wine last night and mackerel is very good for lowering cholesterol.
- The breast of grouse was slightly overdone and a bit dry, but had the intriguingly complex flavours of wild moorland feeding.
- I had the whole roast grouse with ‘banana fondants’ and baby onions for €26.
- One of the best ways to cook grouse to appreciate its fresh gamey flavour is to remove the breasts and pan-fry them.
- He said the trick with cooking grouse was to keep it simple - but, if they stick to the rules, Atkins dieters may have to forego some of the trimmings that come with the new-season bird, such as parsnip crisps and bread sauce.
- As we near the beginning of the autumn game season, consider brambles as accompaniments in sauces; with their tart sweetness, they complement perfectly the richness of game such as venison, grouse or pigeon.
- Hanging game can't be that important or restaurants wouldn't be full of pretentious prats eating grouse on the 12th of August, the only day when you can guarantee the birds can't have been hung.
- Roast grouse is where traditional cooking and accompaniments can't be beaten - bread sauce, watercress, game gravy, even buttery fried crumbs or game chips all are perfect partners to roast grouse.
- And the fare was always good - the roast grouse even excellent.
- Roast grouse with poached plums was just drowned in jam (game wants bread sauce, crumbs and red wine in a glass, that's all) and the chicken was stuffed not with salmon this time, but foie gras.
- One day it would be noodles with garlic-butter sauce and a glass of pomegranate juice, the next it would be roasted grouse, bread, and a mug of sweetened milk.
- After that, I had a sensational roast young grouse served medium-rare.
- Whole roast grouse may still come with game chips and bread sauce but there is game jus rather than over-thickened gravy.
Origin Early 16th century: perhaps related to medieval Latin gruta or to Old French grue 'crane'. grouch from late 19th century: The words grouch and grudge (Late Middle English) are variants of obsolete grutch, from Old French grouchier ‘to grumble, murmur’, of unknown origin. Early 19th-century grouse may be related.
Rhymes douse, dowse, Gauss, house, Klaus, louse, Manaus, mouse, nous, Rouse, souse, spouse, Strauss verb ɡraʊsɡraʊs [no object]Complain about something trivial; grumble. she heard him grousing about his assistant Example sentencesExamples - He was grousing about classical music compilations and how they ruined the intent of the original composer.
- I was grousing about R.'s stubborn refusal to accept the new realities of her life and to find some new pastimes that match her abilities.
- Commercial snapper crews grouse also about offshore shrimpers, although not quite so vocally, and feel that sport fishermen may get too large a share.
- Typically, customers do grouse, but in the aggregate, they've not rebelled and over time have come to accept the practice as fully entrenched.
- ‘These journalists come here with their minds already made up,’ he groused.
- When a movie is broken into a series of vignettes as this one is, critics usually can't resist saying which vignette is the best and grousing that some vignettes are better than others.
- There are some members of parliament who are being quoted grousing about the queen's role in all of this.
- I expected to drag you, moaning, groaning and grousing, out of your warm bed.
- For nearly as long as there has been an entrepreneurial space industry, there has been griping and grousing about regulatory issues, as well as lobbying for legislation to resolve those flaws.
- So today, I'm grousing and trying to find something constructive to do with the day.
- ‘I don't know what the American people think,’ Roosevelt groused.
- I've groused about this before and will probably grouse again in the future.
- For decades, the moguls groused because their products, unlike cars and potato chips, were not endlessly reproducible.
- Have you ever worried that people are grousing about the egregious errors of your judgment?
- There's been quite a lot of grumbling and grousing in corporate America.
- Most people loved it, but one old woman was grousing away (while still watching, mind you) at all those hundreds of pounds being wasted.
- I don't need to begin this new Tuesday by grousing over an annoyance rather easily fixed with a few keystrokes.
- Our girls were pouring topsoil over each other when my wife began grousing that the tourists were ugly; Blue Spring gets up to 2,000 visitors a day because of the manatees.
- Two guys next to me were grousing about getting older.
- ‘Oh, fine, so maybe there's some truth in it,’ he groused.
Synonyms grumble, complain, moan, groan, protest, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss object to, speak out against, rail at, oppose, lament, bewail, grieve over, sorrow about, sorrow for, sigh over informal bellyache, beef, bitch, grouch, whinge, kick up a fuss, kick up a stink, sound off, go on British informal gripe, grizzle, chunter, create North American informal kvetch South African informal chirp British dated crib, natter archaic plain over
noun ɡraʊsɡraʊs A complaint or grumble. our biggest grouse was about the noise of construction work Example sentencesExamples - My life [as an excavator] has been full of grouses about local museums not taking my material.
- How terribly twisted must one's mind become to lead one to kill another human being in cold blood after nursing some grouse over turf or money?
- Finally someone is sounding out the grouses of the general public on the papers regarding the ridiculously expensive cost of things out there.
- But Eliot himself remarked, ‘To me it was only the relief of a personal and insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.’
- Their grouse is that other south Indian language films are sound both technically and visually as they have film cities of their own.
- I dislike hanging around people with lots of grouses.
- The grouse of aged visitors to the Eco Park against the Corporation is that it has not taken any steps to develop the three-acre area on its southern side.
- But take away that personal grouse, and you've still got a strong selection from one of the best damn dance-groups ever.
- However, the main grouse of these publishers is that they do not get much by way of advertisement support from corporates, which prefer the English publications.
- Since then we have had grouses about red-tape, taxation, education, high interest rates, bad weather, directors’ pay, students' fees and much more besides.
- Even in places where there is some greenery, the Museum or say, Kanakakkunnu, the common grouse voiced by regulars is that the number of breeze and shade-giving trees has dwindled over the years.
- Of course, there are the grouses like high freight tariffs.
- Now here is my particular grouse: What was in the minds of the designers who thought up that last set of track wear for our women runners?
- Have a grouse about an inconsiderate bus driver?
- The grouses tend to focus on the traffic, the airport and the shortage of hotel rooms.
- Their main grouse was the 0.15 per cent securities transaction tax on share transactions.
- That proper water supply has been ensured to four residential extensions which came up only recently, while things continue to ail in the old town limits is another grouse.
- Their grouse: expansive windmill-farms look unsightly!
- People here have another big grouse: Government does not seem to be interested in registering this district on the tourist map of the state.
- He had even described his short public life as a ‘long litany of failures ‘and ‘heartfelt personal grouses.’
Synonyms grumble, complaint, moan, groan, whine, grievance, objection, protest, protestation, cavil, quibble informal beef, gripe, bellyache, whinge, grouch Law, British plaint
Derivatives noun ˈɡraʊsəˈɡraʊsər The people get labeled as ‘grousers,’ when in fact they are talented employees that are crying for leadership that understands as much about the business as they do.
Origin Early 19th century: of unknown origin; compare with grouch. adjective ɡraʊsɡraʊs Australian, NZ informal Very good (used as a general term of approval) the car was a grouse tomato red which everyone liked Example sentencesExamples - Apart from that, though, the rest is pretty grouse.
- Civil war was the winner on the day and I hope youse all have a grouse night.
Origin 1920s: of unknown origin. nounɡrousɡraʊs 1A medium to large game bird with a plump body and feathered legs, the male being larger and more conspicuously colored than the female. Family Tetraonidae (or Phasianidae): several genera, especially Lagopus and Tetrao. The family also includes ptarmigans, capercaillies, and prairie chickens Example sentencesExamples - The first year of the project saw 30 young black grouse released in October 2003.
- Pair up female and male black grouse that have no chemistry - the female isn't interested in the male.
- Which was the fastest game bird in Europe - the golden plover or the grouse?
- The black grouse is Scotland's second-most endangered bird after centuries of habitat destruction and hunting.
- Business as usual is what has driven the greater sage grouse to its precarious brink.
- 1.1 The flesh of the grouse as food.
Example sentencesExamples - The breast of grouse was slightly overdone and a bit dry, but had the intriguingly complex flavours of wild moorland feeding.
- Roast grouse with poached plums was just drowned in jam (game wants bread sauce, crumbs and red wine in a glass, that's all) and the chicken was stuffed not with salmon this time, but foie gras.
- Whole roast grouse may still come with game chips and bread sauce but there is game jus rather than over-thickened gravy.
- And the fare was always good - the roast grouse even excellent.
- Roast grouse is where traditional cooking and accompaniments can't be beaten - bread sauce, watercress, game gravy, even buttery fried crumbs or game chips all are perfect partners to roast grouse.
- As we near the beginning of the autumn game season, consider brambles as accompaniments in sauces; with their tart sweetness, they complement perfectly the richness of game such as venison, grouse or pigeon.
- After that, I had a sensational roast young grouse served medium-rare.
- I had the whole roast grouse with ‘banana fondants’ and baby onions for €26.
- He said the trick with cooking grouse was to keep it simple - but, if they stick to the rules, Atkins dieters may have to forego some of the trimmings that come with the new-season bird, such as parsnip crisps and bread sauce.
- The grouse had been hung too long and cooked too long.
- One of the best ways to cook grouse to appreciate its fresh gamey flavour is to remove the breasts and pan-fry them.
- I try to replicate my early success by bringing out the abattis à la bourguignonne: giblets of duck, pigeon, and grouse cooked in a red-wine sauce.
- Hanging game can't be that important or restaurants wouldn't be full of pretentious prats eating grouse on the 12th of August, the only day when you can guarantee the birds can't have been hung.
- One day it would be noodles with garlic-butter sauce and a glass of pomegranate juice, the next it would be roasted grouse, bread, and a mug of sweetened milk.
- Between you and me, I had too much grouse and red wine last night and mackerel is very good for lowering cholesterol.
Origin Early 16th century: perhaps related to medieval Latin gruta or to Old French grue ‘crane’. verbɡraʊsɡrous [no object]Complain pettily; grumble. she heard him grousing about his assistant Example sentencesExamples - Typically, customers do grouse, but in the aggregate, they've not rebelled and over time have come to accept the practice as fully entrenched.
- Commercial snapper crews grouse also about offshore shrimpers, although not quite so vocally, and feel that sport fishermen may get too large a share.
- I was grousing about R.'s stubborn refusal to accept the new realities of her life and to find some new pastimes that match her abilities.
- So today, I'm grousing and trying to find something constructive to do with the day.
- For decades, the moguls groused because their products, unlike cars and potato chips, were not endlessly reproducible.
- When a movie is broken into a series of vignettes as this one is, critics usually can't resist saying which vignette is the best and grousing that some vignettes are better than others.
- ‘I don't know what the American people think,’ Roosevelt groused.
- Most people loved it, but one old woman was grousing away (while still watching, mind you) at all those hundreds of pounds being wasted.
- I don't need to begin this new Tuesday by grousing over an annoyance rather easily fixed with a few keystrokes.
- I expected to drag you, moaning, groaning and grousing, out of your warm bed.
- He was grousing about classical music compilations and how they ruined the intent of the original composer.
- There's been quite a lot of grumbling and grousing in corporate America.
- There are some members of parliament who are being quoted grousing about the queen's role in all of this.
- Two guys next to me were grousing about getting older.
- Our girls were pouring topsoil over each other when my wife began grousing that the tourists were ugly; Blue Spring gets up to 2,000 visitors a day because of the manatees.
- For nearly as long as there has been an entrepreneurial space industry, there has been griping and grousing about regulatory issues, as well as lobbying for legislation to resolve those flaws.
- I've groused about this before and will probably grouse again in the future.
- ‘Oh, fine, so maybe there's some truth in it,’ he groused.
- Have you ever worried that people are grousing about the egregious errors of your judgment?
- ‘These journalists come here with their minds already made up,’ he groused.
Synonyms grumble, complain, moan, groan, protest, whine, bleat, carp, cavil, lodge a complaint, make a complaint, make a fuss
nounɡraʊsɡrous A grumble or complaint. our biggest grouse was about the noise of the construction work Example sentencesExamples - How terribly twisted must one's mind become to lead one to kill another human being in cold blood after nursing some grouse over turf or money?
- Of course, there are the grouses like high freight tariffs.
- Finally someone is sounding out the grouses of the general public on the papers regarding the ridiculously expensive cost of things out there.
- My life [as an excavator] has been full of grouses about local museums not taking my material.
- Even in places where there is some greenery, the Museum or say, Kanakakkunnu, the common grouse voiced by regulars is that the number of breeze and shade-giving trees has dwindled over the years.
- But take away that personal grouse, and you've still got a strong selection from one of the best damn dance-groups ever.
- Their main grouse was the 0.15 per cent securities transaction tax on share transactions.
- He had even described his short public life as a ‘long litany of failures ‘and ‘heartfelt personal grouses.’
- Their grouse is that other south Indian language films are sound both technically and visually as they have film cities of their own.
- Since then we have had grouses about red-tape, taxation, education, high interest rates, bad weather, directors’ pay, students' fees and much more besides.
- But Eliot himself remarked, ‘To me it was only the relief of a personal and insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling.’
- I dislike hanging around people with lots of grouses.
- That proper water supply has been ensured to four residential extensions which came up only recently, while things continue to ail in the old town limits is another grouse.
- The grouse of aged visitors to the Eco Park against the Corporation is that it has not taken any steps to develop the three-acre area on its southern side.
- Now here is my particular grouse: What was in the minds of the designers who thought up that last set of track wear for our women runners?
- People here have another big grouse: Government does not seem to be interested in registering this district on the tourist map of the state.
- Their grouse: expansive windmill-farms look unsightly!
- However, the main grouse of these publishers is that they do not get much by way of advertisement support from corporates, which prefer the English publications.
- Have a grouse about an inconsiderate bus driver?
- The grouses tend to focus on the traffic, the airport and the shortage of hotel rooms.
Synonyms grumble, complaint, moan, groan, whine, grievance, objection, protest, protestation, cavil, quibble
Origin Early 19th century: of unknown origin; compare with grouch. adjectiveɡraʊsɡrous Australian, NZ informal Very good (used as a general term of approval) the car was a grouse tomato red which everyone liked Example sentencesExamples - Apart from that, though, the rest is pretty grouse.
- Civil war was the winner on the day and I hope youse all have a grouse night.
Origin 1920s: of unknown origin. |