grouse

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Williams Production Company RMT, which holds many of the permits in question, joined the BLM in arguing that the current protections for the grouse are adequate.

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  1. noun Any of various plump, chickenlike game birds of the family Tetraonidae, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere and having mottled brown or grayish plumage.
  2. intransitive verb To complain; grumble.
  3. noun A cause for complaint; a grievance.

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  • Note where the manipulators will As for the grouse - read (click links for full articles) what follows and weep, but only if you have the temperament, and the stamina, to handle Idiocy-Writ-Large. —  LewRockwell.com
  • Williams Production Company RMT, which holds many of the permits in question, joined the BLM in arguing that the current protections for the grouse are adequate. —  LewRockwell.com
  • The pointers are stiff on a covey; the setter is pointing a wily grouse, and in an instant the shot will emerge.
  • My only grouse was the slightly under-portioned serving of beef compared to the rice. —  TODAYonline
  • 'I thought the grouse was pigeon and the chicory was pak choi'
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  1. Origin unknown.
  2. Perhaps from French dialectal groucer, from Old French grouchier; see grudge.

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  1. Formerly also growse (18th century), grouss (1668), grows (1531); possibly a false singular, evolved (after the assumed analogy of louse, mouse, singular of lice, mice) from the prob. older though later-appearing word grice, a grouse, apparently a particular use of grice, grice, grise (also spelled gryce), gray, after Old French “poule griesche, a moorehenne, the henne of the Grice [griece, ed. 1673] or mooregame” (Cotgrave); cf. Old French “griesche, gray, as a stare; perdrix griesche, the ordinary or gray partridge, pie griesche, the wariangle (a ravenous bird)” (Cotgrave), French pie-grièche, a shrike. The Old French griesche, gray, is apparently a variant (feminine) of gris, feminine grise (Middle Latin griseus), gray: see grise.
  2. from grouse, n.
 

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