grousing

[ grous ]

Synonyms for grousing

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Antonyms for grousing

adjective. unhappy; critical

adjective. irritable, testy

adjective. grouchy, hard to please

Word Origin & History

type of game bird, 1530s, grows (plural, used collectively), of unknown origin, possibly from Latin or Welsh.

"Grousing" is Tommy Atkins for grumbling, which is an Englishman's birthright.

No doubt you were often bored, and did your share of grousing.

Grousing because he can't sit in an easy-chair and swig toddies no end!

I suppose he was grousing and grumbling about that when you went out for a walk this afternoon.

After all, Richenda's "grousing" was a little spoiling her fun.

A good many of the men had been out before, and they did the customary "grousing" over the added load.

Later I heard this undertaking genius of a Tommy grousing and muttering to himself.

We'll find him in there grousing because they called us in before we got all of those Messerschmitts.

But at any rate he had no chance of it, and his framework here is little more than a tissue of transcendental "grousing."

She's grousing rather about going to Chung-king and I want him to tell her it's a very decent place.