Would you help me to find the origin of my nick?

Factual Questions
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It’s a little embarrassing, but I don’t know where my nick comes from. I use to believe that it was my invention, but in a Yahoo and Google search I found it in a language I can’t identify:

GROUSSER

Some pages I found with the word are:

http://www.petitweb.lu/textespetitsclics/chansonsbis.htm#An%20der%20grousser%20hellger%20Nuecht

http://www.alas.be/mathey.htm

and

http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/pragolu.html

I thought it was Esperanto but I couldn’t find it in Esperanto translation services.

Some of you know what my word means? Which language is it? Some examples, please?

Thanks in advance.

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Well, I did find [url+“http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=GROUSER”]this:

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Preview is my friend. Here’s the fixed link

4

It’s definitely not Esperanto. It seems to be Letzebuergisch (a German dialect spoken in Luxemburg, one of Luxemburg’s three official languages, the other ones being French and German). What it means I don’t know (sounds suspiciously like the German word for “great”), but Letzebuergisch is mentioned in all of your three sites, so I’m confident it is.

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Here’s some more info about Letzebuergisch.

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Thanks for all, I think Schnitte and Floater have the correct answer.

That has to be, because I often see the word “grousser” preceding a name, as in “grousser Musek” or “grousser Erwaardung”.

Anyway, I will appreciate any confirmation of this.

But in the Prager Manifest reads: “grousser a klenger” (?).

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Last attempt: anyone?

8

I had a history teacher (WWII Vet) that used to always say “Quit your grousing” meaning complaining or bitching. If you seem to be predisposed to voicing objections, this may be your answer. Your other option is to ask one of the people that first called you that and ask “why”? Just an opinion.

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Sorry, dnooman, please read the early posts. I once “invented” the word, for a character in a game, but I didn’t know the word existed already. The posts from Schnitte and Floater go into the right direction. Now the question is if it really means “great” in Letzebuergisch or what.

Thanks anyway.

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I’d always thought I’d invented my nick, too, Grousser. When I googled my name, it turns out the first several hits are for something called the Orange Skinner Bible, from the Elizabethian Era, IIRC. There really isn’t anything new under the sun, dammit.

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If it’s used like that, I’d wager a guess that it is a german dialect and these quotes stand for ‘grosser Musik’ or ‘grosser Erwartung’. Which translate roughly to ‘large/great Musik’ or ‘great expectation’. German nouns are spelled with a starting capital. Schnitte or any other German doper might be able to improve on this guess.