A-Word-a-day, one of my all-time favorite sites, posted this one today. I knew the verb “to grouse” meaning to complain; I knew the noun “a complaint”; I knew that it was also a bird, but I learned something new as well.
Since 1941 “grouse” is an Australian slang, used as an adjective and meaning “wonderful”.
Now that’s what I love about words – so versatile – so able to be twisted and turned and become something totally unlike what they were.
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