grouse

IPA: grˈaʊs

(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.
(uncountable) The flesh or meat of this bird eaten as food.
(informal) A cause for complaint; a grumble.

Examples of "grouse" in Sentences

When i am in grouse country, I am also in Whitetail country.
These include ruffed grouse, which is why the RGS is so involved in the planning process.
Our only grouse is we have very little bread, but we are expecting to get more from Tuesday May 5th.
Main courses included more Dornoch lamb, wild sea bass from Usan, turbot from Scrabster and grouse from the Scottish moors.
The effect of so much industrial activity on the area's herds of pronghorn and mule deer, and on the increasingly rare sage grouse, is unknown.
This was true: the grouse was the one good thing we ate – well hung, the breasts and legs taken off the carcass and served the right shade of pink, the offal spread on toast.
"The grouse is no doubt very good," she said, "and being to the manner born as ye may say, I never tire of it; but for a genteel supper like what you have always given to the lads –"
My chief grouse is that on a supposedly literary site (short fiction, flash fiction, “everyday” fiction), you do not know that “everyday”, in the context in which you use it, both on the site as well as, perhaps, on the cover of the book, is ONE word, an adjective.
Instead of needing to take responsibility and say something like “I think the target we’ve been using in recent years isn’t aggressive enough so I’m writing a bill to change it and will try to persuade people to sign on,” they get to sort of grouse from the sidelines in a non-specific way if things go bad.