Synonyms of the word

grouse

• n. Any of various game birds of the family Tetraonidae which inhabit temperate and subarctic regions of the…
• v. To seek or shoot grouse.
• n. A cause for complaint.
• v. To complain or grumble.
• adj. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Excellent.

beef

• n. (uncountable) The meat from a cow, bull, or other bovine.
• n. (slang, countable or uncountable, plural: beefs) A grudge; dislike (of something or someone); lack of…
• v. (intransitive) To complain.
• v. (transitive) To add weight or strength to, usually as beef up.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To fart; break wind.
• v. (African American Vernacular, intransitive, slang) To feud or hold a grudge against.
• v. (intransitive, chiefly Yorkshire) To cry.
• adj. Being a bovine animal that is being raised for its meat.
• adj. Producing or known for raising lots of beef.
• adj. Consisting of or containing beef as an ingredient.

bellyache

• n. Any pain in the belly, stomach, or abdomen.
• v. To unnecessarily complain or whine, often about simple matters.

complain

• v. (intransitive) To express feelings of pain, dissatisfaction, or resentment.
• v. (intransitive) To make a formal accusation or bring a formal charge.
• v. To creak or squeak, as a timber or wheel.

crab

• n. A crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the…
• n. A bad-tempered person.
• n. (in plural crabs, informal) An infestation of pubic lice (Pthirus pubis).
• n. (slang) A playing card with the rank of three.
• n. (rowing) A position in rowing where the oar is pushed under the rigger by the force of the water.
• n. A defect in an outwardly normal object that may render it inconvenient and troublesome to use.
• v. (intransitive) To fish for crabs.
• v. (transitive, US, slang) To ruin.
• v. (intransitive) To complain.
• v. (intransitive, nautical, aviation) To drift sideways or to leeward (by analogy with the movement of a…
• v. (transitive) To navigate (an aircraft, e.g. a glider) sideways against an air current in order to maintain…
• v. (obsolete, World War I), to fly slightly off the straight-line course towards an enemy aircraft, as the…
• v. (rare) To back out of something.
• n. The crab apple or wild apple.
• n. The tree bearing crab apples, which has a dogbane-like bitter bark with medical use.
• n. A cudgel made of the wood of the crab tree; a crabstick.
• n. A movable winch or windlass with powerful gearing, used with derricks, etc.
• n. A form of windlass, or geared capstan, for hauling ships into dock, etc.
• n. A machine used in ropewalks to stretch the yarn.
• n. A claw for anchoring a portable machine.
• v. (obsolete) To irritate, make surly or sour.
• v. To be ill-tempered; to complain or find fault.
• v. (British dialect) To cudgel or beat, as with a crabstick.
• n. The tree species Carapa guianensis, native of South America.
• n. Short for carabiner.

fowl

• n. (archaic) A bird.
• n. A bird of the order Galliformes, including chickens, turkeys, pheasant, partridges and quail.
• n. Birds which are hunted or kept for food, including Galliformes and also waterfowl of the order Anseriformes…
• v. To hunt fowl.
• adj. (obsolete) foul.

gripe

• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To make a grab (to, towards, at or upon something).
• v. (archaic, transitive) To seize, grasp.
• v. (intransitive) To complain; to whine.
• v. To suffer griping pains.
• v. (nautical) To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To pinch; to distress. Specifically, to cause pinching and spasmodic pain to the…
• n. A complaint; a petty concern.
• n. (nautical) A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems.
• n. (obsolete) grasp; clutch; grip.
• n. (obsolete) That which is grasped; a handle; a grip.
• n. (engineering, dated) A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel.
• n. Oppression; cruel exaction; affliction; pinching distress.
• n. (chiefly in the plural) Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines.
• n. (nautical) The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot.
• n. (nautical) The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep…
• n. (nautical) An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure…
• n. (obsolete) A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.

holler

• n. A yell, shout.
• n. By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.
• v. (intransitive) To yell or shout.
• v. (transitive) To call out one or more words.
• v. To complain, gripe.
• n. (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (small valley between mountains).
• adj. (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow.

kick

• v. (transitive) To strike or hit with the foot or other extremity of the leg.
• v. (intransitive) To make a sharp jerking movement of the leg, as to strike something.
• v. (transitive) To direct to a particular place by a blow with the foot or leg.
• v. (with "off" or "out") To eject summarily.
• v. (Internet) To forcibly remove a participant from an online activity.
• v. (slang) To overcome (a bothersome or difficult issue or obstacle); to free oneself of (a problem).
• v. To move or push suddenly and violently.
• v. (of a firearm) To recoil; to push by recoiling.
• v. (chess, transitive) To attack (a piece) in order to force it to move.
• v. (cycling, intransitive) To accelerate quickly with a few pedal strokes in an effort to break away from…
• n. A hit or strike with the leg, foot or knee.
• n. The action of swinging a foot or leg.
• n. (colloquial) Something that tickles the fancy; something fun or amusing.
• n. (Internet) The removal of a person from an online activity.
• n. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) whose only or main current function is that when it…
• n. (figuratively) Any bucking motion of an object that lacks legs or feet.
• n. (uncountable and countable) piquancy.
• n. A stimulation provided by an intoxicating substance.
• n. (soccer) A pass played by kicking with the foot.
• n. (soccer) The distance traveled by kicking the ball.
• n. a recoil of a gun.
• n. (informal) pocket.
• n. An increase in speed in the final part of a running race.
• v. To die.

kvetch

• v. To whine or complain, often needlessly and incessantly.
• n. Person who endlessly whines or complains; a person who finds fault with anything.
• n. An instance of kvetching; a complaint or whine.

plain

• adj. (now rare, regional) Flat, level.
• adj. Simple.
• adj. Obvious.
• adj. Open.
• adj. Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.
• adv. (colloquial) Simply.
• n. (rare, poetic) A lamentation.
• v. (reflexive, obsolete) To complain.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, now rare, poetic) To lament, bewail.
• n. An expanse of land with relatively low relief.
• n. A battlefield.
• n. (obsolete) A plane.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To make plain or manifest; to explain.

quetch

• v. Alternative form of quitch.

squawk

• n. A shrill noise, especially made by a voice or bird; a yell, scream, or call.
• n. (aviation) A four-digit transponder code used by aircraft for identification or transmission of emergency…
• n. (aviation) An issue or complaint related to aircraft maintenance.
• n. The American night heron.
• v. To make a squawking noise; to yell, scream, or call out shrilly.
• v. To speak out; to protest.
• v. To report an infraction; to rat on or tattle; to disclose a secret.
• v. (aviation) To set or transmit a four-digit transponder code. (Normally followed by the specific code in…

wildfowl

• n. Any wild bird such as ducks, geese or swans.
• n. Waterfowl.
• v. To hunt wildfowl.