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How to pronounce grouse in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms beef, bellyache, bitch, crab, gripe, holler, squawk
Type of kvetch, plain, kick, sound off, quetch, complain
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Type of wildfowl
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Type of fowl
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Type of game bird
Has types prairie grouse, black grouse, ruffed grouse, sage grouse, sage hen, sharp-tailed grouse, sprig tail, sprigtail, spruce grouse, tetrao urogallus, ptarmigan, bonasa umbellus, canachites canadensis, capercaillie, capercailzie, centrocercus urophasianus, horse of the wood, partridge, pedioecetes phasianellus, prairie chicken, prairie fowl

Examples of grouse

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Others grouse that Schaaff has demonstrated little of Jobs'take-charge attitude.
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Will the country house be enough, we all know how boring shooting grouse can be.
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These permits are free and required for anyone who hunts grouse east of U.S. 81.
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Rather, their grouse was that he accepted bribes without covering up his tracks.
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Like most prairie grouse, lesser prairie chickens only nest on pristine prairie.
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Amongst these are the sheep farms and grouse shooting venues that Satejan notes.
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Most of the poisoned birds were found in landscapes managed for grouse shooting.
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Fine to discuss alternatives to grouse shooting for the preservation of wildlife.
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He set the seven-feet-high work on a natural rock in the middle of a grouse moor.
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More examples
  • Flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil
  • Hunt grouse
  • Gripe: complain; "What was he hollering about?"
  • Popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet
  • Grouse are a group of birds from the order Galliformes. They are often considered a family Tetraonidae, though the American Ornithologists' Union and many others include grouse as a subfamily Tetraoninae in the family Phasianidae. ...
  • Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere; To complain or grumble; excellent
  • A small, low-fat game bird. Quality birds should have no odor.
  • Very good, as in grouse shiela.
  • This is one of the top game birds consumed in Scotland. The dark meat of the bird is served with bread sauce.