rousest
English
Verb
(head)
(archaic) (rouse)
rouse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reuser, ruser, originally used in English of hawks shaking the feathers of the body. Figurative meaning “to stir up, provoke to activity” is from 1580s; that of “awaken” is first recorded 1590s.
Noun
(en noun )
an arousal
(military, British, and, Canada) The sounding of a bugle in the morning after reveille, to signal that soldiers are to rise from bed, often the rouse .
Verb
(rous)
to wake or be awoken from sleep, or from apathy.
- to rouse the faculties, passions, or emotions
* Atterbury
- to rouse up a people, the most phlegmatic of any in Christendom
* Shakespeare
- Night’s black agents to their preys do rouse .
* Alexander Pope
- Morpheus rouses from his bed.
(senseid) To provoke (someone) to anger or action.
* Milton
- Blustering winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea.
To cause to start from a covert or lurking place.
- to rouse a deer or other animal of the chase
* Spenser
- Like wild boars late roused out of the brakes.
* Alexander Pope
- Rouse the fleet hart, and cheer the opening hound.
(nautical) To pull by main strength; to haul
(obsolete) To raise; to make erect.
- (Spenser)
- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From carouse, from the phrase “drink carouse” being wrongly analyzed as “drink a rouse”.
Noun
(en noun )
an official ceremony over drinks
- And the King’s rouse the heaven shall bruit again,
- Re-speaking earthly thunder. – “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare, act 1 scene 2 lines 127-128
A carousal; a festival; a drinking frolic.
* Tennyson
- Fill the cup, and fill the can, / Have a rouse before the morn.
wine or other liquor considered an inducement to mirth or drunkenness; a full glass; a bumper.
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grousest
English
Adjective
(head)
(grouse)
grouse
Etymology 1
Attested in the 1530s, as grows , a plural used collectively. Of origin.
Noun
(en-noun)
Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the northern hemisphere.
Verb
(grous)
To seek or shoot grouse.
Etymology 2
As a verb from the late 19th century (first recorded by Kipling), as a noun from the early 20th; origin uncertain, possibly from French groucier “to murmur, grumble”, in origin onomatopoeic. Compare grutch with the same meaning, but attestation from the 1200s, whence also grouch.
Noun
(en noun )
A cause for complaint.
Verb
(grous)
To complain or grumble.
*1890 , Kipling,
*:If you’re cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,
- Don’t grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;
- Be handy and civil, and then you will find
- That it’s beer for the young British soldier.
Etymology 3
1940s, origin .
Adjective
(er)
(Australian, NZ, slang) Excellent.
- I had a grouse day.
- That food was grouse .
* 1991 , , Scribner Paperback Fiction 2002, page 182 ,
- They were the grousest ladies she?d ever met.
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