grouse
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grouse1
▶noun (pl. same) a medium-sized game bird with a plump body and feathered legs. [Lagopus lagopus (red or willow grouse) and other species.]
– origin C16: perh. rel. to med. L. gruta or to OFr. grue ‘crane’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grouse2
▶verb complain pettily; grumble. ▶noun a grumble or petty complaint.
– derivatives
grouser noun.
grouser noun.
'grouse' also found in these Oxford entries:
blackcock
- black grouse
- butt
- capercaillie
- game bird
- gorcock
- greyhen
- gricer
- hazel grouse
- lek
- moorcock
- moorfowl
- prairie chicken
- ptarmigan
- red grouse
- sage grouse
- tinamou
- twelfth
- willow grouse
- willow ptarmigan
