Definition of Grousers

1. Noun. (plural of grouser) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Grousers

1. grouser [n] - See also: grouser

Lexicographical Neighbors of Grousers

groupuscules
groupware
groupwares
groupwide
groupwork
groupworker
groupworkers
groupy
grouse
grouse-berry
grouse whortleberry
grouseberry
groused
grouselike
grouser
grousers (current term)
grouses
grousest
grousing
grout
grouted
grouter
grouters
groutier
groutiest
grouting
groutings
groutite
groutlike
grouts

Literary usage of Grousers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"... body of men is commonly designated by their more sensible and forbearing comrades as the grousers. ..."

2. Labor and Industry: A Series of Lectures by Percy Alden (1920)
"Where there is a large body of people there will always be some " grousers," while there may occasionally be a certain amount of grounds for the complaint ..."

3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1868)
"... and no " Returns" for the grousers : that was the Brigadier's doing : what a brick he was ! but then he was a Guardsman, ..."

4. Rhythm, Music and Education by Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1921)
"How many critics are mere "grousers," confined to a negative attitude out of sheer creative impotence! One thing or the other: either a critic is himself ..."

5. The First Hundred Thousand: Being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K (1)," by Ian Hay (1916)
"The winter dragged on: the weather was appalling: the grousers gave tongue with no uncertain voice, each streaming field-day. But Wee Pe'er enjoyed it all. ..."

6. The Wheat Problem: Based on Remarks Made in the Presidential Adress to the by William Crookes (1917)
"... and the unfamiliar war bread so speedily became accepted by all but an inevitable minority of inveterate " grousers." The cereals, other than wheat, ..."

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