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Grouse

Parf of speech: Verb, OED Year: 1887, OED Evaluation: Army slang

To grumble.

ExampleMeaning
Yeah. So there's- you-know, and you always hear the grousing from the business community. "Oh, they cleaned downtown Liskeard but they didn't clean Haileybury."
Petty complaining
ExampleMeaning
I have become a hunter. You-know, I never was but and I kept grousing about the deer eating my vegetables. And somebody said, "Well you should become a hunter." And that was always in our family tradition, to um- you put up your own meat whether it was your- from y-- these- do you know the book um, um "Omnivore's Dilemma"?
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