grousing, vbl. n.
(ˈgraʊsɪŋ)
[f. grouse v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of grouse v.1; grouse-shooting.
| 1771–72 Batchelor (1773) I. 134 Are you fond of grousing, my lord? I'll show you fine sport this season in my neighbourhood. 1802 R. L. & M. Edgeworth Irish Bulls xvi. 292 He had in former times gone out a grousing, near Cork, with our hero. 1880 L. B. Walford Troublesome Dau. I. ii. 34 Nearly every August found him in Scotland, either for the salmon-fishing or the grousing. |
| attrib. 1860 Ld. Palmerston in Daily News (1895) 27 Apr. 6/4 The Speaker, who has not been quite well, grows as impatient as any official who has hired a grousing moor and cannot get to it. |