grouse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “Among fowls for the table [of King Henry VIII] are crocards, winders, runners, grows, and peions, but neither Turky or Guiney-fowl.”

2. isim The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
3. fiil To hunt or shoot grouse.
4. fiil To complain or grumble.

   “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.”

5. isim A cause for complaint; a grumble.
6. sıfat Excellent.

   “I had a grouse day.”