MEANING
1. To complain in a grumbling or dissatisfied manner.
2. A ground-dwelling game bird commonly associated with moors or woodland.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- grouse about costs
- grouse at a delay
On the page
He groused about the cold but kept working.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- grouse
- Past tense
- groused
- Past participle
- groused
- Present participle
- grousing
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- grouse
- Present continuous
- am/is/are grousing
- Present perfect
- have/has groused
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been grousing
- Past
- groused
- Past continuous
- was/were grousing
- Past perfect
- had groused
- Past perfect continuous
- had been grousing
- Future
- will grouse
- Future continuous
- will be grousing
- Future perfect
- will have groused
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been grousing
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: grouse; grouses; groused; groused; grousing. Noun singular grouse; plural grouse. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description, character, dialogue. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: grouses.
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