grousing

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And if you look like grousing, they'll actually talk about sending you off to the trenches, like foot-soldiers!

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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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  • Apart from occasional fits of televised grousing, Congress has no role in the process, having abdicated its constitutional control over public expenditures to the Treasury Department last September. —  LewRockwell.com
  • Believe it or not, some people are criticizing the press for its handling of the Sarah Palin story, and we have had grousing about that, some counterpunches being thrown, with no concession of petty pursuits or double standards. —  ScrippsNews - current events, culture, commentary, community
  • Oh, yes, and you better do your "famous" brisket or there will be grousing from the children. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • There's some grousing in the comments over at Network World that some of the sites recommended here are "social sites," but I think that anybody who has participated at the —  VMware RSS Feed
  • There was plenty of the usual hissing, grousing, grimacing and flinging the occasional club back toward his bag with a bit too much English. —  Brownsville Herald :
 

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