grouse

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɡɹaʊs/    美 /ɡɹaʊs/|/ɡræɔs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. countable
    — Among fowls for the table [of King Henry VIII] are crocards, winders, runners, grows, and peions, but neither Turky or Guiney-fowl.
  2. A cause for complaint; a grumble. informal
  3. The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food. uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To hunt or shoot grouse. intransitive
  2. To complain or grumble. informal,intransitive
    — If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind, Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind; Be handy and civil, and then you will find That it's beer for the young British soldier.
形容词 adj.
  1. Excellent. Australia,New-Zealand,slang
    — I had a grouse day.

词形变化

grouse plural grouses plural grouses present,singular,third-person grousing participle,present groused participle,past groused past grouses present,singular,third-person grousing participle,present groused participle,past groused past grouses plural grouser comparative grousest superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
black grouse blue grouse Caucasian grouse dusky grouse fire grouse Franklin grouse Franklin's grouse grouseless grouselike grouse locust grouse whortleberry hazel grouse pine grouse ruffed grouse sage-grouse sage grouse sand grouse sand-grouse sandgrouse sharp-tailed grouse Siberian grouse sooty grouse tippet grouse willow grouse wood grouse

词源

词源 1
Attested in the 1530s, as grows ("moorhen"), a plural used collectively.
The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested:
* From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin grūs (“crane”).
* Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word.
* Imitative of the bird’s call.
The verb is derived from the noun.
词源 2
The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly borrowed from Norman groucier, from Old French groucier, grousser (“to grumble, murmur”) [and other forms] (whence grutch (“to complain; to murmur”) and grouch). The further etymology is unknown, but it may be derived from Frankish *grōtijan (“to make cry, scold, rebuke”) or of onomatopoeic origin.
The noun is derived from the verb.
词源 3
Uncertain; possibly from British dialectal groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian (Scotland)), grosh (northeast Lancashire) and groshy (“having thriving vegetation; juicy and tender; of weather: good for vegetation, rainy”) (Lancashire, Yorkshire), grushie (“having thriving vegetation”) (Scotland); from Scots groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian, obsolete), grush (obsolete), grushie, grushy (“growing healthily or lushly; excellent, very good”) (both archaic), from gross (“lacking refinement, coarse; fat; large”) + -ie (suffix meaning ‘rather, somewhat’).
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