The meaning of Grouches

noun

The flesh of a cow, bull, or ox, used as food.

Usage examples:

There was the smell of roast beef

verb

Complain.

Usage examples:

He was beefing about how the recession was killing the business

noun

The flesh of cattle eaten as meat

Usage examples:

A roast beef sandwich, my beef is, how come i’m not making as much as you?, stop beefing about havi…

noun

A stomach pain.

Usage examples:

If i complain of a sore bellyache mom will never believe me.

verb

Complain noisily or persistently.

Usage examples:

Heads of department bellyaching about lack of resources

noun

A pain in the stomach

Usage examples:

Stop bellyaching and just get on with the job.

noun

A female dog, wolf, fox, or otter.

Usage examples:

A female puppy or bitch reaches sexual maturity at roughly the same age as a male; however, there a…

verb

Make spitefully critical comments.

Usage examples:

Everybody was bitching about their colleagues

noun

A female dog

verb

(of a sheep, goat, or calf) make a characteristic weak, wavering cry.

Usage examples:

The lamb was bleating weakly

noun

The weak, wavering cry made by a sheep, goat, or calf.

Usage examples:

The distant bleat of sheep

noun

A deep-bodied freshwater fish, typically with barbels around the mouth. carp are farmed for food in some parts of the world and are often kept in large ponds.

Usage examples:

One species, the silver carp, is known to jump completely out of the water when a boat passes, in s…

verb

Complain or find fault continually about trivial matters.

Usage examples:

I don't want to carp about the way you did it

verb

To complain about unimportant matters

Usage examples:

However much people carp about junk mail, many of them read it.

verb

Make petty or unnecessary objections.

Usage examples:

They cavilled at the cost

noun

A petty or unnecessary objection.

Usage examples:

But although i sympathise with almost all of what todorov says, and applaud his achievement in sayi…

verb

To make unreasonable complaints, especially about things that are not important

Usage examples:

The one cavil i have about the book is that it is written as a diary., the main cavil is that the w…

verb

(of a small bird or an insect) make a short, sharp, high-pitched sound.

Usage examples:

Outside, the crickets chirped monotonously

noun

A short, sharp, high-pitched sound.

Usage examples:

The chirps and whirrs of insects

verb

(esp. of a bird) to make a short high sound or sounds

verb

Talk or grumble monotonously.

Usage examples:

She chuntered on about her problems

verb

To complain, especially in a low voice

Usage examples:

Al was chuntering (on) about being the last to know what was happening.

verb

Express dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.

Usage examples:

Local authorities complained that they lacked sufficient resources

verb

To say that something is wrong or not good enough

Usage examples:

Bill and nancy are always complaining about their neighbor, whose dog frightens their kids., [ + th…

verb

To tell someone that something is wrong or not satisfactory, and that you are annoyed about it

Usage examples:

Complain about sth workers complain about the conditions in which they are forced to work., complai…

noun

A person who expresses dissatisfaction or annoyance about something.

Usage examples:

It's also long past time for the chronic complainers to stop spreading discontent

verb

Bring (something) into existence.

Usage examples:

He created a thirty-acre lake

verb

Bring into existence

verb

To cause something to exist, or to make something new or imaginative

Usage examples:

He created some of the most magnificent works of art ever made., the new hotel is expected to creat…

noun

A bad-tempered person.

Usage examples:

York is bulging at the walls with scrooges, grinches, crotchety crosspatches and other assorted bah…

noun

A person who is easily annoyed

noun

Dissatisfaction with one's circumstances; lack of contentment.

Usage examples:

Voters voiced discontent with both parties

adjective

Dissatisfied.

Usage examples:

He was discontent with his wages

noun

A feeling of not being satisfied with your situation or with the way you are being treated

Usage examples:

Mexican-american leaders expressed discontent with the administration., discontented with her job, …

verb

Feel intense sorrow.

Usage examples:

She grieved for her father

noun

An overseer, manager, or bailiff on a farm.

verb

Complain about something in a persistent, irritating way.

Usage examples:

It's no use griping about your boss or your pay

noun

A minor complaint.

Usage examples:

My only gripe is the size of the page numbers

verb

Complain

adjective

(of hair or fur) having dark and white hairs mixed.

Usage examples:

Grizzle-haired

noun

A mixture of dark and white hairs.

Usage examples:

Today the bags under his eyes are big and dark enough to trap a badger and a grey grizzle of beard …

verb

(of a child) cry fretfully.

Usage examples:

Sometimes children grizzled, sometimes they wailed

noun

A medium to large game bird with a plump body and feathered legs, the male being larger and more brightly coloured than the female.

Usage examples:

Which was the fastest game bird in europe - the golden plover or the grouse?

verb

Complain about something trivial; grumble.

Usage examples:

She heard him grousing about his assistant

noun

A complaint or grumble.

Usage examples:

Our biggest grouse was about the noise of construction work

verb

Complain about something in a bad-tempered way.

Usage examples:

‘i'm getting old,’ she grumbled

noun

A complaint.

Usage examples:

The main grumble is that he spends too much time away

noun

A person who complains a lot

Usage examples:

She has no time for grumblers., like many middle-aged men, he's become a grumbler.

noun

A grumpy person.

Usage examples:

He proved a fearful grump—not the flicker of a smile

verb

Act in a sulky, grumbling manner.

Usage examples:

He grumped at me when i moved the papers

noun

Someone who is easily annoyed and complains a lot

Usage examples:

He's only an old grump - don't listen to him.

noun

A person who complains a great deal.

Usage examples:

She emerges as something of a kvetch, constantly nagging rick

verb

Complain persistently.

Usage examples:

Jane's kvetching about her crummy existence

verb

To complain

Usage examples:

He was kvetching about the price.

noun

A person who is dissatisfied and rebellious.

Usage examples:

It was too late to stop the malcontents with a show of force

adjective

Dissatisfied and complaining or rebellious.

Usage examples:

The malcontent generals saw their role as leaders of this counter-revolution

noun

A person who is not satisfied with the way things are, and who complains a lot and is unreasonable and difficult to deal with

verb

Make a fuss; moan.

Usage examples:

Oh men—don't they mither?

verb

To complain

Usage examples:

He's always mithering about how much everything costs these days., stop mithering me! can't you see…

noun

A long, low sound made by a person expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure.

Usage examples:

She gave a low moan of despair

verb

Make a long, low sound expressing physical or mental suffering or sexual pleasure.

Usage examples:

Just then their patient moaned and opened his eyes

verb

To make a long, low sound because of pain or suffering, or to say something in a complaining way

Usage examples:

We could hear someone moaning within the rubble of the collapsed building., we could hear moans and…

noun

A person who complains a lot, usually about something that does not seem important to other people

Usage examples:

They're just a lot of moaners who are never satisfied., old people have gained a reputation for bei…

noun

A person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen.

Usage examples:

The pessimists point to ways in which life has deteriorated

noun

Someone who feels that bad things are more likely to happen than good things

Usage examples:

In the coming months pessimists will say that stocks are not a good buy., a pessimistic quarterly i…

verb

Emit a long, deep audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.

Usage examples:

Harry sank into a chair and sighed with relief

noun

A long, deep audible exhalation expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or similar.

Usage examples:

She let out a long sigh of despair

verb

Breathe out deeply and heavily

noun

A bad-tempered or habitually sullen person.

Usage examples:

Consequently i now have a reputation as a sourpuss and a grouch.

noun

Strong thread or string consisting of two or more strands of hemp or cotton twisted together.

Usage examples:

An empty plastic 2 litre bottle is tied to a rock, or bag of stones with strong twine or string.

verb

Wind or cause to wind round something.

Usage examples:

The plant will twine round its support

noun

An instance of moaning or complaining.

Usage examples:

Having a good twine today—well, i am british and we do love complaining!

adjective

Covered or saturated with water or another liquid.

Usage examples:

She followed, slipping on the wet rock

verb

Cover or touch with liquid; moisten.

Usage examples:

He wetted a finger and flicked through the pages

noun

Liquid that makes something damp.

Usage examples:

I could feel the wet of his tears

noun

A long, high-pitched complaining cry.

Usage examples:

The dog gave a small whine

verb

Give or make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound.

Usage examples:

The dog whined and scratched at the back door

verb

To make a high, complaining sound, or to complain continually

Usage examples:

If you don’t stop whining, we won’t go at all!, fig. the whine of tracey’s hair dryer wakes me ever…

verb

Complain persistently and in a peevish or irritating way.

Usage examples:

Stop whingeing and get on with it!

noun

An act of complaining persistently and peevishly.

Usage examples:

I can't help having a whinge about the referee though

verb

To complain, especially about something that does not seem important

Usage examples:

Oh stop whinging, for heaven's sake!, she's always whingeing (on) about something., we were just ha…