grouse
ExcellentExcellent.
Meaning
1 senses(Australia, New Zealand, slang)Excellent.
I had a grouse day.
That food was grouse.
Examples
7 sentencesTom is grouse hunting.
ruТом охотится на куропаток. — odexed
He's got nothing to grouse about.
She was grousing about having to go back to work.
deSie stöhnte, dass sie wieder zur Arbeit musste. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
The male grouse performs elaborate dances in order to attract a mate.
ruСамец тетерева выполняет сложные танцы, чтобы привлечь пару. — Smoky
Grouse feed on the young shoots of heather.
Origin
Uncertain; possibly from British dialectal groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian (ScotlUncertain; 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’).
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Forms
grouser, grousestSynonyms
114 synonymsAntonyms
48 antonymsLessons for this word
2 lessons- A2Comparatives — Because it has a comparative form
- A2Superlatives — Because it has a superlative form