different between spectacular vs grouse

English

Etymology

From Latin spectaculum (“a sight, show”) + -ar

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sp?k?tæk.j?.l?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sp?k?tæk.j?.l?/
• Rhymes: -ækj?l?(?)
• Hyphenation: spec?tac?u?lar

Adjective

spectacular (comparative more spectacular, superlative most spectacular)

1. Amazing or worthy of special notice.

   The parachutists were spectacular.

2. (dated) Related to, or having the character of, a spectacle or entertainment.

   the merely spectacular

   • 1681, George Hickes, “A Sermon Preached before the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Citizens of London”:

     The like clamour, and outcry, the Rabble of the unbelieving Jews and Gentiles made again?t Polycarp Bi?hop of Smyrna, at the time of his Martyrdom. crying out again?t him to the Governour, that he ?hould ca?t him to the Lyons, and when he an?wered them he could not, becau?e the Spectacular ?ports were concluded, then they cry’d out, Burn him, burn him, ju?t as the Jews cryed out again?t Chri?t to Pilate, Crucify him, crucify him.
3. Relating to spectacles, or glasses for the eyes.

Derived terms

• spectacularly
• unspectacular

Related terms

• spectacle
• species
• speculate

Translations

Further reading

• spectacular in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• spectacular in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Noun

spectacular (plural spectaculars)

1. A spectacular display.
   • 2010, "Under the volcano", The Economist, 16 Oct 2010:

     Though business has more or less held up so far, a series of drug-related spectaculars sparked an exodus of the city's upper class this summer.

2. (advertising) A pop-up (folded paper element) in material sent by postal mail.
   • 1966, Hanley Norins, The Compleat Copywriter

     Here are a few examples of "spectaculars," or three-dimensional pieces, including those which have won awards […]

Romanian

Etymology

From French spectaculaire

Adjective

spectacular m or n (feminine singular spectacular?, masculine plural spectaculari, feminine and neuter plural spectaculare)

1. spectacular

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /??a?s/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?ræ?s/
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?ræus/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Etymology 1

The origin of the noun is unknown; the following derivations have been suggested:

• From Old French grue (“crane”) (modern French grue) or Medieval Latin gruta (“crane”), both from Latin gr?s (“crane”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gerh?- (“to cry hoarsely; a crane”).
• Borrowed from Celtic or a different Medieval Latin word.
• Imitative of the bird’s call.

The verb is derived from the noun.

Noun

grouse (countable and uncountable, plural grouse or grouses)

1. (countable) Any of various game birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere; specifically, the red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) native to heather moorland on the British Isles. [from 1530s]

   (red grouse): Synonyms: moorbird, moorcock, moorfowl
2. (uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.

Derived terms

• grouselike

Translations

Verb

grouse (third-person singular simple present grouses, present participle grousing, simple past and past participle groused)

1. (intransitive) To hunt or shoot grouse.

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Etymology 2

The origin of the verb is uncertain; it is possibly borrowed from Norman groucier, from Old French groucier, grousser (“to grumble, murmur”) [and other forms] (whence grutch (“to complain; to murmur”) and grouch). The further etymology is unknown, but it may be onomatopoeic.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Verb

grouse (third-person singular simple present grouses, present participle grousing, simple past and past participle groused)

1. (intransitive, originally military slang, informal) To complain or grumble. [from late 19th c.]
   • 1890, Kipling, The Young British Soldier

     If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,

     Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;

     Be handy and civil, and then you will find

     That it's beer for the young British soldier.

Derived terms

• grouser
• grousing (noun)

Translations

Noun

grouse (plural grouses)

1. A cause for complaint; a grumble. [from early 20th c.]

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Etymology 3

Origin uncertain; possibly from British dialectal groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian (Scotland)), grosh (northeast Lancashire) and groshy (“having thriving vegetation; juicy and tender; of weather: good for vegetation, rainy”) (Lancashire, Yorkshire), grushie (“having thriving vegetation”) (Scotland); from Scots groosh (“excellent, very good”) (Lothian, obsolete), grush (obsolete), grushie, grushy (“growing healthily or lushly; excellent, very good”) (both archaic), from gross (“lacking refinement, coarse; fat; large”) + -ie (suffix meaning ‘rather, somewhat’).

Adjective

grouse (comparative grouser, superlative grousest)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent. [from 1920s]

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:excellent

   Antonyms: see Thesaurus:bad

   • 1991, Tim Winton, Cloudstreet, Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002, page 182,

     They were the grousest ladies she?d ever met.

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References

Further reading

• grouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• -gerous, Rogues, orgues, rogues, rouges, rugose