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6-letter words (6 found)

ERUGOS,GROUSE,ORGUES,ROGUES,ROUGES,RUGOSE,

5-letter words (17 found)

ERGOS,ERUGO,EUROS,GOERS,GORES,GORSE,GRUES,OGRES,ORGUE,REGOS,ROGUE,ROUES,ROUGE,ROUSE,SOGER,SURGE,URGES,

4-letter words (36 found)

EGOS,ERGO,ERGS,EROS,EURO,GEOS,GERS,GOER,GOES,GORE,GORS,GRUE,GUES,GURS,OGRE,ORES,ORGS,OURS,REGO,REGS,REOS,ROES,ROSE,ROUE,RUES,RUGS,RUSE,SEGO,SORE,SOUR,SUER,SUGO,SURE,URES,URGE,USER,

3-letter words (34 found)

EGO,ERG,ERS,GEO,GER,GOE,GOR,GOS,GUE,GUR,GUS,OES,ORE,ORG,ORS,OSE,OUR,OUS,REG,REO,RES,ROE,RUE,RUG,SEG,SER,SOG,SOU,SUE,SUG,SUR,UGS,URE,USE,

2-letter words (13 found)

ER,ES,GO,GU,OE,OR,OS,OU,RE,SO,UG,UR,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 107 words from grouse according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of grouse

grouse

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ɡɹaʊs/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ɡræɔs/
  • (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ɡræus/
  • Rhymes: -aʊs

Etymology 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”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely; a crane”).
  • Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word.
  • Imitative of the bird’s call.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

grouse (countable and uncountable, plural grouse or grouses)

  1. (countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. [from 1530s]
    (red grouse): Synonyms: moorbird, moorcock, moorfowl
  2. (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
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Verb

grouse (third-person singular simple present grouses, present participle grousing, simple past and past participle groused)

  1. (intransitive) To hunt or shoot grouse.
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Etymology 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.

Verb

grouse (third-person singular simple present grouses, present participle grousing, simple past and past participle groused)

  1. (intransitive, originally military slang, informal) To complain or grumble. [from late 19th c.]
Derived terms
  • grouser
  • grousing (noun)
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Noun

grouse (plural grouses)

  1. (informal) A cause for complaint; a grumble. [from early 20th c.]
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Etymology 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’).

Adjective

grouse (comparative grouser, superlative grousest)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent. [from 1920s]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent
    Antonyms: see Thesaurus:bad
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References

Further reading

  • grouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • -gerous, Rogues, orgues, rogues, rouges, rugose

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʁuz/

Noun

grouse m (plural grouses)

  1. grouse

Further reading

  • “grouse”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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