verb
- complaining or grumbling persistently
- hunting grouse
Usage: informal
Usage: hunting
noun
- the act of complaining or grumbling
Usage: informal
Examples
- Stop grousing about the weather and enjoy the day.
- He’s always grousing about his job but never does anything to change it.
- The constant grousing from the team was affecting morale.
- Her grousing about the new policy fell on deaf ears.
- They went grousing in the Scottish highlands last autumn.
- The old man spent his days grousing about modern technology.
- All this grousing won’t solve the problem.