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Grouse   /graʊs/   Listen
Grouse

noun
(pl. grouse)
1.
Flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil.
2.
Popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet.
verb
1.
Hunt grouse.
2.
Complain.  Synonyms: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk.



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"Grouse" Quotes from Famous Books



... not try the Highlands? There must be lots of traffic there in the shape of sheep, grouse, and Cockney tourists, not to mention salmon and other etceteras. Couldn't we tip them a railway ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... busy time for this country's legislators. The session was drawing to a close, and we were passing Bills with a prodigality and despatch which provoked many not altogether undeserved gibes from a reptile Opposition Press concerning the devotion of his Majesty's Government to the worship of Saint Grouse. ...
— The Right Stuff - Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton • Ian Hay
... has the ruffed grouse which you may still find occasionally in the deeper woods. Stepping over the fallen tree you send the little yellow-brown babies scattering, like fluffy golf-balls rolling for cover. Invariably the old bird utters a ...
— Some Summer Days in Iowa • Frederick John Lazell
... view of Mr. Waistcott as he went to the gallows with a white cockade in his hat." Not to be wanting in the ordinary courtesies of the time, Selwyn's correspondent presently remarks, as one nowadays would do of a day's grouse-shooting: "I hope you have had good sport at the Place de Greve, to make up for losing the sight of so notorious a villain as Lady Harrington's porter. Mais laisons la ce discours triste, and let us ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... learned to gauge the men who govern the world. Do you think a man like that, called upon to deal with a Metternich or a Pozzo, has no advantage over an individual who never leaves his chair in Downing Street except to kill grouse? Pah! Metternich and Pozzo know very well that Lord Roehampton knows them, and they set about affairs with him in a totally different spirit from that with which they circumvent some statesman who has issued from ...
— Endymion • Benjamin Disraeli


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