# Digest urth.v030.n109 *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 11 May 2001* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### DhSunanda *11 May 2001, 11:59* >> "Vhas a groose.", I translate as "[He] Was a grouse." In >> > American slang, a grouse is a person who habitually complains. > > Dunno. I've seen "to grouse," a verb for a kind of habitual > complaining, but I've never heard or seen a nominal form. > MW on line only lists (as noun) the bird and "a complaint." > The Shorter Oxford gives a noun form: "A grumble, a complaint; a reason for grumbling". And the very next definition (along the lines of "wicked") is "Austral. & NZ slang.E20. (Something) good or excellent". ---