different between wonderful vs grouse

English

Alternative forms

• wonderfool (eye dialect), woonderful (eye dialect), wonderfull (archaic), wondreful (obsolete), wondrefull (obsolete), 1drfl (internet slang)

Etymology

From Middle English wonderful, wondirful, from Old English wundorful (“wonderful”), from Proto-West Germanic *wundrafull, equivalent to wonder +? -ful. Cognate Dutch wondervol (“wonderful”), German wundervoll (“wonderful”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?n.d?.fl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?n.d?.fl?/
• Rhymes: blunderful

Adjective

wonderful (comparative wonderfuller or wonderfuler or more wonderful, superlative wonderfullest or wonderfulest or most wonderful)

1. Tending to excite wonder; surprising, extraordinary.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 278:

     He is massively corrupt. It is wonderful how the man's popularity survives.

2. Surprisingly excellent; very good or admirable, extremely impressive.

   They served a wonderful six-course meal.

Synonyms

• (excellent, extremely impressive): great, amazing, astonishing, incredible, marvelous, fantastic, frabjous, mint
• See also Thesaurus:wonderful
• See also Thesaurus:excellent

Antonyms

• (excellent, extremely impressive): terrible, horrible

Translations

Adverb

wonderful (not comparable)

1. (dialect) Exceedingly, to a great extent.

Related terms

• women are wonderful effect
• wonder
• wonderfully
• wonderland
• wonderment
• wondrous

Anagrams

• underflow, wondreful

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.

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)

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.]

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)

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.

Translations

References

Further reading

• grouse on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

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