A man speaks frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor queries.
"No, you idiot!" the man shouts. "This is her husband!"
- fit of grumbling or the sulks. grouchy adj. (-ier, -iest). [related to *grudge]
GROUND
control n. Personnel directing the landing etc. Of aircraft etc.
- cover n. Low-growing plants covering the surface of the earth.
- elder n. Garden weed spreading by means of underground stems.
- floor n. Floor of a building at ground level.
- frost n. Frost on the surface of the ground or in the top layer of soil.
- glass n. - glass made non-transparent by grinding etc.
- glass ground to a powder.
- speed n. Aircraft's speed relative to the ground.
- swell n. Heavy sea caused by a distant or past storm or an earthquake.
- —n. - a surface of the earth, esp. As contrasted with the air around it. B part of this specified in some way (low ground).
- a position, area, or distance on the earth's surface. B extent of a subject dealt with (the book covers a lot of ground).
- (often in pl.) Reason, justification.
- area of a special kind or use (often in comb.: cricket-ground; fishing-grounds).
- (in pl.) Enclosed land attached to a house etc.
- area or basis for agreement etc. (common ground).
- (in painting etc.) The surface giving the predominant colour.
- (in pl.) Solid particles, esp. Of coffee, forming a residue.
- us electr. = *earth n. 4. 10 bottom of the sea. 11 floor of a room etc. 12 (in full ground bass) mus. Short theme in the bass constantly repeated with the upper parts of the music varied. 13 (attrib.) (of animals) living on or in the ground; (of plants) dwarfish or trailing. —v. - refuse authority for (a pilot or an aircraft) to fly.
- a run (a ship) aground; strand. B (of a ship) run aground.
- (foll. By in) instruct thoroughly (in a subject).
- (often as grounded adj.) (foll. By on) base (a principle, conclusion, etc.) On.
- us electr. = *earth v. break new (or fresh) ground treat a subject previously not dealt with. Get off the ground colloq. Make a successful start. Give (or lose) ground retreat, decline. Go to ground 1 (of a fox etc.) Enter its earth etc.
- (of a person) become inaccessible for a prolonged period. Hold one's ground not retreat. On the grounds of because of. [old english]
- past and past part. Of *grind.
GROUSE
n. (pl. Same) 1 game-bird with a plump body and feathered legs.
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