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superb
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin superbus.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /su?p?b/, /s??p?b/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sju??p??b/, /su??p??b/
- Rhymes: -??(?)b
- Hyphenation: su?perb
Adjective
superb (comparative superber, superlative superbest)
- First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
- Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
- Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
- (dated) Haughty.
- 1858, Julia Kavanagh, Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
- A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
- 1858, Julia Kavanagh, Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
Synonyms
- excellent
- superlative
Derived terms
- superbly
Translations
Anagrams
- BUPERS, Repubs
German
Alternative forms
- süperb
Etymology
Borrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
superb (not comparable)
- superb
Declension
Further reading
- “superb” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
From French superbe, from Latin superbus.
Adjective
superb m or n (feminine singular superb?, masculine plural superbi, feminine and neuter plural superbe)
- superb
Declension
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grouse
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)
- (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
- (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)
- (intransitive) To hunt or shoot grouse.
Translations
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)
- (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.
- 1890, Kipling, The Young British Soldier
Derived terms
- grouser
- grousing (noun)
Translations
Noun
grouse (plural grouses)
- A cause for complaint; a grumble. [from early 20th c.]
Translations
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)
- (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.
Translations
References
Further reading
- grouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- -gerous, Rogues, orgues, rogues, rouges, rugose
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