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winsome
English
Etymology
From Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”); synchronically analyzable as winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) +? -some.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w?n.s(?)m/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w?n.s?m/
- Hyphenation: win?some
Adjective
winsome (comparative winsomer, superlative winsomest)
- Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter IX:
- […] lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter IX:
Related terms
- winly
- winne
- winsomely
- winsomeness
Translations
Further reading
- winsome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Owenism
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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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