grouse

1.松鸡，词源不详，可能来自拟声词，模仿这种鸟的叫声。

2. 抱怨，拟声词，模仿抱怨的声音。比较grouch, grunt.

grouse

grouse: English has two words grouse, neither of whose ancestries are adequately documented. It has been speculated that grouse the game-bird [16] originated as the plural of a now lost *grue, which may have come from the medieval Latin bird-name grūta, or from Welsh grugiar, a compound of grug ‘heath’ and iar ‘hen’. Grouse ‘complain’ [19] is first recorded in the poetry of Rudyard Kipling. It seems originally to have been pronounced to rhyme with moose, but in the 20th century has come into line phonetically with grouse the bird. It is not known where it came from.

grouse (n.)

type of game bird, 1530s, grows (plural, used collectively), of unknown origin, possibly from Latin or Welsh. Originally the moorhen of the British Isles; later the name was extended to similar birds in other places.

grouse (v.)

"complain," 1885 (implied in agent noun grouser), British Army slang, of uncertain origin. OED notes "a curious resemblance" to Normandy French dialectal groucer, from Old French groucier, grocier "to murmur, grumble, complain," which is of imitative origin (compare Greek gru "a grunt," gruzein "to grumble;" also see grutch). Related: Groused; grousing. As a noun from 1918, from the verb.

1. The party had been to the grouse moors that morning.

这群人那天上午去了松鸡猎场。

2. Grouse shooting begins in August.

松鸡狩猎开始于8月。

3. The menu included roast grouse.

菜单上有烤松鸡。

4. They're shooting grouse up on the moors.

他们在荒野射猎松鸡.

5. He is a member of a grouse shoot.

他是一名狩猎松鸡的队员.