GROUSE meaning: Game bird with plump body

We found 33 dictionaries that define the word grouse:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

grouse: Merriam-Webster.com
grouse, grouse, grouse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grouse, grouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grouse: Collins English Dictionary
grouse: Vocabulary.com
Grouse, grouse: Wordnik
grouse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Grouse: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
grouse: Wiktionary
grouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grouse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grouse: Infoplease Dictionary
Grouse, grouse: Dictionary.com
grouse (n.), grouse (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
grouse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Grouse (disambiguation), Grouse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Grouse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grouse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grouse: Rhymezone
Grouse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grouse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
grouse: Free Dictionary
grouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
grouse: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
grouse: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

grouse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

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grouse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

grouse: Magic or Madness
grouse: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

grouse, grouse, grouse, grouse, grouse, grouse: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (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.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To hunt or shoot grouse.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, originally military slang, informal) To complain or grumble.
▸ noun:  (informal) A cause for complaint; a grumble.
▸ adjective:  (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent.

Opposite:

praise

Types:

ptarmigan, willow ptarmigan, rock ptarmigan, sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, spruce grouse, more...

Phrases:

ruffed grouse, sage grouse, red grouse, black grouse, blue grouse, more...

Adjectives:

ruffed, red, tailed, black, blue, pinnated, young, sage, male, sand, hazel

Colors:

brown, gray, olive, rust, chestnut, buff, umber, sienna, mahogany, maroon

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