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Grunt

Grunt Meaning & Definition
Grunt Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Grunt?

[n] medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
[n] the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
[v] issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his reluctant approval"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Grunt:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Grunt: air a grievance | animal noise | bark | barking | bawl | beef | bellow | bellyache | bersagliere | birdcall | bitch | blare | blat | blubber | boom | bray | breathe | buzz | cackle | call | carabineer | chant | chasseur | chirp | clamor | clang | complain | coo | crab | croak | crow | cry | dogface | doughfoot | drawl | exclaim | expert rifleman | flute | foot soldier | footslogger | fret | fret and fume | fusileer | fuss | gasp | grenadier | gripe | groan | grouch | grouse | growl | grumble | gruntle | hiss | holler | howl | howling | infantryman | keen | kick | light infantryman | lilt | lodge a complaint | marksman | mating call | mumble | murmur | musketeer | mutter | note | oink | paddlefoot | pant | pipe | raise a howl | register a complaint | rifle | rifleman | roar | rumble | scold | scream | screech | sharpshooter | shriek | sibilate | sigh | sing | snap | snarl | sniper | snort | sob | squall | squawk | squeal | stridulation | take on | thunder | trumpet | twang | ululation | wail | warble | whine | whisper | woodnote | yap | yawp | yell | yelp | Zouave

See Also | Anisotremus surinamensis | Anisotremus virginicus | black margate | cottonwick | emit | family Haemulidae | Haemulidae | Haemulon album | Haemulon aurolineatum | Haemulon macrostomum | Haemulon malanurum | Haemulon parra | hogfish | let loose | let out | margate | noise | Orthopristis chrysopterus | percoid | percoid fish | percoidean | pigfish | pompon | porkfish | sailors choice | sailor's-choice | Spanish grunt | tomtate | utter

Grunt In Webster's Dictionary

\Grunt\ (gr[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Grunted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Grunting}.] [OE. grunten; akin to As. grunian, G. grunzen, Dan. grynte, Sw. grymta; all prob. of imitative; or perh. akin to E. groan.] To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. --Shak. {Grunting ox} (Zo["o]l.), the yak.
\Grunt\, n. 1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog. 2. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus {H[ae]mulon}, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt ({A. Plumieri}), and the redmouth grunt ({H. aurolineatus}), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera {Pomadasys}, {Orthopristis}, and {Pristopoma}. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

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