Synonyms for grouse

Most common

beef · moan · squawk · bellyache

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

Noun

Antonyms

bad, terrible

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Definitions

1. v. 1

   To hunt or shoot grouse.

2. n. 1

   Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles.

Related words

Phrases

wood grouse red grouse hazel grouse sharp-tailed grouse willow grouse fire grouse grouse tick grouse whortleberry

Forms

Plural

grouses → moorcocks, moorbirds, moorfowls…

Past participle

groused
e.g. groused → beefed, bitched, complained, moaned…

Example sentences

• beef Have you got any preference between beef and lamb?
• moan We lament, complain, moan and start crying out in pain.
• squawk An accomplished aviarist can recognise any avian squawk.
• bellyache A stomachache is usually mistaken for a bellyache.

Popularity over time

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters

beef¹, crab¹, moan¹

5 letters

bitch¹, gripe¹

6 letters

holler², squawk¹, grouch¹

7 letters

grumble²

8 letters

complain², moorcock, moorbird, moorfowl

9 letters

bellyache³

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (holler² = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français

maugréer

Italiano

borbottare

Deutsch

maulen