1. Popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
   "Hunters tracked grouse through the snowy forest"
    
2. (game bird) flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
   "The hunter prepared grouse with wild mushrooms"

1. Complain
   "What was he grousing about?";
   - gripe, bitch [informal], crab [informal], beef [informal], squawk, bellyache [informal], holler [informal]
    
2. Hunt grouse
   "They groused on the Scottish moors"

1. Excellent
   "That was a grouse party last night";
   - bang-up [N. Amer, informal], bully [informal], corking [Brit, informal], cracking [Brit, informal], dandy [informal], great, groovy [informal], keen, neat, nifty [informal], not bad [informal], peachy, slap-up [informal], swell [informal], smashing [Brit, informal], old, not half bad [informal], ripper [Austral, informal], lovely

Derived forms: grousing, groused, grouse, grouses

See also: good

Type of: complain, fowl, game bird, kick [informal], kvetch [N. Amer, informal], moan, plain [archaic], sound off, wildfowl

Part of: covey, family Tetraonidae, Tetraonidae

Encyclopedia: Grouse, Oregon