grouse - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

A grouse is a small game bird. But the verb to grouse is different. It means to gripe about how unhappy you are. It's not recommended for most people, because grousing is unattractive.

People's excitement about the rise of the Internet has been largely replaced by disappointment that it's turned out to be essentially a forum for people to grouse. No disappointment is too small to grouse about on the Internet. Did you stub your toe? Grouse about it in your blog! Did your sister tattletale? Get online and start grousing. "I grouse, therefore I am," might be the motto of the Internet. Oh well: now I'm grousing too.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: grouse

1	n v	popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet hunt grouse
2	v	complain

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: grouse

1

n popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet

Types:: show 16 types...; hide 16 types...; black grouse
grouse of which the male is bluish-black; ptarmigan
large Arctic and subarctic grouse with feathered feet and usually white winter plumage; Tetrao urogallus, capercaillie, capercailzie, horse of the wood
large black Old World grouse; Canachites canadensis, spruce grouse
North American grouse that feeds on evergreen buds and needles; Centrocercus urophasianus, sage grouse, sage hen
large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America; Bonasa umbellus, partridge, ruffed grouse
valued as a game bird in eastern United States and Canada; Pedioecetes phasianellus, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail, sprigtail
large grouse of prairies and open forests of western North America; prairie chicken, prairie fowl, prairie grouse
brown mottled North American grouse of western prairies; European black grouse, Lyrurus tetrix, heathfowl
large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail; Asian black grouse, Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi
a black grouse of western Asia; black cock, blackcock
male black grouse; gray hen, grayhen, grey hen, greyhen, heath hen
female black grouse; Lagopus scoticus, moor-bird, moorbird, moorfowl, moorgame, red grouse
reddish-brown grouse of upland moors of Great Britain; Tympanuchus cupido, greater prairie chicken
the most common variety of prairie chicken; Tympanuchus pallidicinctus, lesser prairie chicken
a smaller prairie chicken of western Texas; Tympanuchus cupido cupido, heath hen
extinct prairie chicken

Type of:: game bird
any bird (as grouse or pheasant) that is hunted for sport

n flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil

Type of:: wildfowl
flesh of any of a number of wild game birds suitable for food

v hunt grouse

Type of:: fowl
hunt fowl in the forest

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v complain

Synonyms:: beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk

Type of:: complain, kick, kvetch, plain, quetch, sound off
express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness