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crouse

crouse adjective: brisk; lively; bold.

Adjective

crouse (comparative more crouse, superlative most crouse)

  1. (Scotland) brisk; lively; bold
    • Thence mystic knots mak great abuse / On young guidmen, fond, keen, an' crouse;1785, Robert Burns, Address to the Deil

Proper noun capitalized: Crouse

Crouse (countable and uncountable, plural Crouses)

  1. A surname.
  2. A census-designated place in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States.

Forms of crouse

Adjective
comparativemore crouse
superlativemost crouse
Proper noun
pluralCrouses

Origin of crouse

Uncertain.

Words formed from crouse

Questions about crouse

What does crouse mean?
Crouse means brisk; lively; bold.
What part of speech is crouse?
Crouse can be an adjective or a proper noun.

Words near crouse in the dictionary

  1. croupous
  2. Crouppen
  3. Crouppens
  4. croups
  5. croupy
  6. crouse
  7. crousely
  8. Crouses
  9. Crouseville
  10. croustade
  11. croustades

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