• n. 松雞；雷鳥科的獵鳥；怨言
• vi. 埋怨
• n. (Grouse)人名；(英)格勞斯

1.松雞，詞源不詳，可能來自擬聲詞，模仿這種鳥的叫聲。

2. 抱怨，擬聲詞，模仿抱怨的聲音。比較grouch, grunt.

grouse

grouse: English has two words grouse, neither of whose ancestries are adequately documented. It has been speculated that grouse the game-bird [16] originated as the plural of a now lost *grue, which may have come from the medieval Latin bird-name grūta, or from Welsh grugiar, a compound of grug ‘heath’ and iar ‘hen’. Grouse ‘complain’ [19] is first recorded in the poetry of Rudyard Kipling. It seems originally to have been pronounced to rhyme with moose, but in the 20th century has come into line phonetically with grouse the bird. It is not known where it came from.

grouse (n.)

type of game bird, 1530s, grows (plural, used collectively), of unknown origin, possibly from Latin or Welsh. Originally the moorhen of the British Isles; later the name was extended to similar birds in other places.

grouse (v.)

"complain," 1885 (implied in agent noun grouser), British Army slang, of uncertain origin. OED notes "a curious resemblance" to Normandy French dialectal groucer, from Old French groucier, grocier "to murmur, grumble, complain," which is of imitative origin (compare Greek gru "a grunt," gruzein "to grumble;" also see grutch). Related: Groused; grousing. As a noun from 1918, from the verb.

1. The party had been to the grouse moors that morning.

這群人那天上午去了松雞獵場。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Grouse shooting begins in August.

松雞狩獵開始于8月。

來自柯林斯例句

3. The menu included roast grouse.

菜單上有烤松雞。

來自柯林斯例句

4. They're shooting grouse up on the moors.

他們在荒野射獵松雞.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

5. He is a member of a grouse shoot.

他是一名狩獵松雞的隊員.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》