(n. sing. & pl.) Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathered legs, and usually mottled plumage. The group includes the ptarmigans (Lagopus), having feathered feet.
(v. i.) To seek or shoot grouse.
(v. i.) To complain or grumble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Forty-nine Colorado birds of 6 galliform species were positive for Plasmodium (Giovannolaia) pedioecetii which we feel to be the same parasite described by Wetmore (1939) from a shaptailed grouse from North Dakota.
(2) At this stage, however, the allure of big money Super Pacs has been much stronger on the GOP side, although their ineffectiveness in slowing Trump’s inexorable rise has spawned grousing and finger pointing.
(3) The caecal mucosa of wild young and adult grouse infected naturally with Trichostrongylus tenuis was examined by means of scanning electron microscopy and compared with adult grouse which had been treated with an anthelmintic.
(4) Neoplasms were identified in 3 of 13 free-flying ruffed grouse submitted to the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study during a 10-year period.
(5) The susceptibility of the red grouse to infection is discussed.
(6) Maybe poor old David Cameron might have fared a lot better had he dropped the “call me Dave” stuff and turned up to Downing Street in tweed plus-fours and a dead grouse under his arm.
(7) However, there was no evidence of an intensity-dependent decrease of worm fecundity with increasing worm numbers in either captive or wild grouse.
(8) The resistance of captive reared red grouse to Trichostrongylus tenuis was measured as the proportion of ingested infective 3rd-stage larvae which failed to develop to adult worms.
(9) Instead, we returned to the old political tropes: a prime minister outside Downing street, backbenchers grousing on rolling news channels, financial experts delighted outside City buildings and Nigel Farage on College Green, standing outside the palace he wants to get in.
(10) It is concluded that chickens rapidly expel an established infection of T. tenuis, unlike the normal host, the red grouse.
(11) Even when we had 14 pairs here, the RSPB still wanted more, instead of dispelling the myth that the harrier could take gamekeepers’ livelihoods away.” Grouse moorland is “the best and the worst place for the hen harrier,” added Murphy.
(12) It can snatch a creature as small as a beetle or as bulky as a duck, but its favourite food on high moors is a plump little bird greatly prized by game shooters: the red grouse.
(13) Three hundred thirty-three blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus) were examined for blood parasites from 11 sites: southern Yukon Territory, southeast coastal Alaska, northern and central interior British Columbia, south coastal British Columbia, northcentral Washington, southcentral Oregon, northwestern California, eastcentral Nevada, northwestern Colorado, and westcentral Montana.
(14) In 1964 it was the scientific and technical challenges facing the country with Harold Wilson fighting Sir Alec Douglas Home running around his grouse moor.
(15) His tasting menu runs like a list of ingredients and inspirations: Lindisfarne; razor clam; grouse; spring lamb; strawberry.
(16) He said: "Unlike the Tories we will have a grouse shoot against racism" in reference to the Tories having auctioned a "fantastic eight-gun pheasant shoot" in Oxfordshire at their summer ball.
(17) Some birds of prey also thrived on grouse moors because of these plentiful food supplies: merlin were four times more numerous on grouse moors than in other locations (although this may be because, unlike hen harriers, they are too small to kill grouse).
(18) But with beef or lamb or venison, duck or grouse, and even with pork these days, serving it rare so the juices run is not a quick route to the nearest cemetery.
(19) This wild landscape is preserved, Mawle argues, thanks to funds generated by grouse shoots.
(20) Population dynamics of round and elongate gametocytes of Leucocytozoon in wild and captive blue grouse (Dendragapus obscurus (Say)) from Hardwicke Island, British Columbia, were studied from 1980 to 1982.
Whinge
Definition:
(v. i.) To whine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Reading East's Rob Wilson attacked a whingeing bearded lefty, the archbishop of Canterbury.
(2) "Don't know what you are whinging about, I live in Reading, which has to be worse than London," writes a not-wrong Anton Lawrence.
(3) Controversies such as #Gamergate showed these crybabies that not only were people willing to listen to their performative whingeing, but positively indulge it.
(4) The whingeing begins as soon as they are free to speak.
(5) In the interests of full disclosure – and exhibitionism – I ruined the first time my boyfriend tried to ask me to marry him by spending a full evening whingeing about someone I was arguing with on Twitter.
(6) Business may whinge about legislation, and lobby furiously against it, but in the end - as in the case of Labour's windfall tax - they tend to submit when faced with determined legislators, especially when backed by public opinion.
(7) Staying in London, as gridlock demands we must, Chelsea hope that the captain of Spain's Olympic football team will be so enamoured by the incessant rain and relentless whinging about traffic that he will want to set up permanent home in the capital.
(8) "Between your moaning about early mornings and Dan Rookwood's RSI whingeing," notes Dave Holme, "anyone would think you had a tough job.
(9) Men who might once have faced lions for their faith are whinging about ridicule.
(10) It could be about vajazzling or threesomes or blowjobs; it could contain sex and therefore lighten the load of having to read a whinge.
(11) 49ers 6-0 Packers, 2:17, 1st quarter GB's D shows life, they bring down Kaepernick, contain Gore and then on third down, the Niners QB can't find Crabtree who is falling back into the endzone and whinging for a hold.
(12) Sir John Chilcot and his team should therefore cease whingeing about media attacks, set dates for the publication of their report and a deadline by which final comments should be received, and stick to that timetable irrespective of further complaints about wording from those to be criticised.
(13) The foreign secretary's Cabinet colleague Philip Hammond, fuelled the row when he accused business of "whingeing".
(14) Eamonn Maloney objects: ""The IC" sounds like a province of California full of rich kids who whinge too much.
(15) His whinge in the column following the sentencing of the Facebook fools concerned the Notting Hill carnival (he's got a flat there).
(16) If you take this tool and embrace it rather than whinge, it’s amazing what you can do.
(17) But, as Perth coach Alistair Edwards commented after the match, “both squads have great character, you don’t see us whinging about all the travelling”.
(18) It's there now and the incessant whingeing of lazy spoilt people is drowning out the big match atmosphere.
(19) I would respectfully say to my beloved European friends and colleagues that it’s time that we snapped out of the general doom and gloom about the result of this election and collective whinge-o-rama that seems to be going on in some places,” he said.
(20) We know, because Shakespeare wrote it into the scripts, moreover as a whinge, that the however-many-hours-traffic of the original stage ended with a jig .