grouse

1. 1.

   hunt grouse

   Broaderfowl
2. 2.

   complain

   “What was he hollering about?”

   Synonymsgripebitchcrabbeefsquawkbellyacheholler

   Broadercomplain

Other forms of grouse

plural

grouse(unchanged)

past tense

groused·

present participle

grousing·

third person

grouses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grouse

What does grouse mean?

grouse means "flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grouse?

grouse has 1 syllable: grouse. In IPA it is /ˈɡɹaʊs/.

What is another word for grouse?

Close synonyms include gripe, bitch, crab, beef, squawk. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grouse a common word?

grouse is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.