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grouser

[grous]

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verb (used without object)

to grumble; complain: I've never met anyone who grouses so much about his work.

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noun

a complaint.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.

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Origin:
1850–55; origin uncertain; compare grouch

Related forms

grous·er, noun

Synonyms
1. gripe, fret, fuss.

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grouse² (ɡraʊs)

—vb
1.	(intr) to grumble; complain

—n
2.	a persistent complaint

[C19: of unknown origin]

'grouser²

—n

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Word Origin & History

grouse

"complain," 1887, British Army slang (first recorded by Kipling), of uncertain origin but perhaps from Norman Fr. dial. groucer, from O.Fr. groucier "to murmur, grumble," of imitative origin (cf. Gk. gru "a grunt," gruzein "to grumble").

Slang Dictionary

grouse definition

[grɑʊs]

in.
to complain. : Paul is always grousing about something.
n.
a woman; women considered sexually. : Who's the grouse I saw you with last night?
in.
to neck; to pet and kiss. : They were grousing in the backseat the whole trip.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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