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Digest urth.v030.n109
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"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".