grousing
抱怨,哼哼唧唧,牢骚,抱怨的
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plural grouse, grous·es.
- : any of numerous gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Tetraoninae.Compare black grouse, capercaillie, ruffed grouse, spruce grouse.
- : British. the red grouse.
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From gulls to grouse to grackles, more than 10,000 bird species live on this planet.
For all our grousing about political dynasties, Americans clearly have a thing for them.
But until now there hasn't been an outright break, just a lot of behind-the-scenes grousing.
But of course it'll take about five days before people on the left are back to grousing about him again.
Now, the GOP is grousing that Obama has appointed former Sen. Alan Simpson—a Republican!
Mavis, sitting on one of the lockers, and listening to the general grousing going on around her, shook herself impatiently.
Growling and grousing and his eye all bloodshot from the drouth is in it and the hydrophobia dropping out of his jaws.
This 'ere bloke you're grousing at 'e's a friend of mine, and I'll pipe up for a friend when 'e's being reprimanded undeserving.
"Oh, some people find cause for grousing, no matter how good their luck is," Jim answered.
But soon they settled down to do their job, to take trouble over their work rather than make trouble by grousing over it.