Old Grouser still as mean as ever with us girls.

David daydreamed of having Moon on his side, a grouser within the palace who had the potential for subversion.

As a child, she writes, her parents dubbed her "The Grouser."

Until then, he's just another grouser."

Thank you, Grouser.

'You are an old grouser,' said Bundle.

There is the English professor, the grouser, the general, the legend, the legend 1A and the couch potato.

He knew that the British Tommy is a born grouser and that the only time when his officers need worry about him is when he sits still and says nothing.

It met a linguistic need that reflects the temper of contentious times: a kvetch is not merely "a complainer, nag, sulker, grumbler, grouser, griper, whiner, moaner" or the more formal "malcontent."

In each story a misunderstanding, often arising from a device created by the inventor, Mr. Inventor, occurs which involves the Ernest the Policeman, the disgruntled Mr Grouser the Grocer and the Mayor.

The characterization of Irv as the perennially dissatisfied modern man - a grouser of the magnitude of Saul Bellow's Herzog or Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's "Confederacy of Dunces" - is too strong to be undercut by a little authorial interference.