Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere
A grouse is a wild bird with a round body. Grouse are often shot for sport and can be eaten. The party had been to the grouse moors that morning. Grouse is the flesh of this bird eaten as food. The menu included roast grouse
A grouse is a complaint. There have been grouses about the economy, interest rates and house prices. Any of various plump, chickenlike game birds of the family Tetraonidae, chiefly of the Northern Hemisphere and having mottled brown or grayish plumage. to complain about something = moan grouse about. Any of various game birds in the family Tetraonidae (order Galliformes), including the prairie chicken and ptarmigan, or the sandgrouse (order Columbiformes). The best-known Old World species is the black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix) of Wales, Scotland, Scandinavia, and northern central Europe. The male, iridescent blue-black with white wing bars, may be 22 in. (55 cm) long and weigh about 4 lbs (almost 2 kg); the smaller female is mottled brown and barred with black. Grouse are noted for the male's communal courtship dances. The best-known North American species is the ruffed grouse
popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil hunt grouse
If you grouse, you complain. `How come we never know what's going on?' he groused When they groused about the parking regulations, they did it with good humor