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# grouse

noun (a grouse, grouse — bird; a grouse, grouses — complaint); verb (grouse, grouses, groused, grousing); adjective (grouse — Australia, slang)

«grouse» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A grouse is a plump, brown wild bird with feathered legs that lives on moors and in forests. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#m1)
2. (informal) To grouse means to complain or grumble, and a grouse is a complaint. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#m2)
3. (Australia, NZ, slang) Grouse means really good or excellent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#m3)

### In the lessons

In science and geography lessons, red grouse live on heather moors in Scotland and northern England; in North America there are ruffed grouse and sage grouse. Grouse shooting is a sport in the UK, which some people oppose. In everyday talk, a person who grouses is always moaning. In Australia, «that's grouse!» means «that's great!» (a bit old-fashioned now).

### Examples

- A grouse flew up from the heather. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x1)
- Red grouse live on the moors of Scotland. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x2)
- The male sage grouse puffs up its chest to show off. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x3)
- Stop grousing about the rain and put your coat on. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x4)
- My only grouse is that the film was too long. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x5)
- (Australia) That pie was grouse, mate! [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x6)
- Grouse are hard to see because their feathers match the moor. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x7)
- Thus spoke the grouse, who certainly had very pretty manners. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/#x8)

### Note

For the bird, the plural is usually also «grouse»: «three grouse». For the complaint, the plural is «grouses». The Australian slang «grouse» (good) is the opposite of the complaining sense, so listen to context.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «grouse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/grouse/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«grouse» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/grouse.html) on Mova free.