Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To utter a deep guttural sound, as a hog does.
- intransitive verb To utter a sound similar to a grunt, as in disgust.
- intransitive verb To utter or express with a deep guttural sound.
- noun A deep guttural sound.
- noun Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Haemulidae that produce a grunting sound by rubbing together their pharyngeal teeth.
- noun Slang An infantryman in the US military, especially in the Vietnam War.
- noun Slang One who performs routine or mundane tasks.
- noun New England A dessert made by stewing fruit topped with pieces of biscuit dough, which steam as the fruit cooks.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make a guttural noise, as a hog; also, to utter short or broken groans, as from eagerness or over-exertion.
- noun A deep guttural sound, as that made by a hog.
- noun A fish of the family Hæmulonidæ, as those of the genera Hœmulon and Orthopristis: so called from the noise they make when hauled out of the water. Also called
pig-fish and growler for the same reason. Seeredmouth . - noun Among the various fishes of the genus Hæmulon and family Hæmulidæ, so named, are the following:
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
- transitive verb (Zoöl.) the yak.
- noun A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Hæmulon, 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 alsopigfish ,squirrel fish , andgrunter ; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken. - noun slang A U. S. infantryman; -- used especially of those fighting in the war in Vietnam.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short,
snorting sound , often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak. - noun The
snorting cry of apig . - noun A family of
Perciformes fish of the family Haemulidae - noun Army and United States Marine Corps slang An
infantry soldier . (From the sound he presumably makes whenshouldering apack before starting a road march.) - verb intransitive Of a person: To make a grunt or grunts.
- verb intransitive Of a pig: To make a grunt or grunts.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
- noun an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
- noun the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
- verb issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Since you say you excel at conceptual tasks, I challenge you to see if you can develop a more creative and/or stream-lined approach to what you call the grunt work.
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Since his mother's death he'd gotten into the habit of grunting, if a grunt is what you'd call it.
The Boy from Thuringia David Booth 2010
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After i finish a rattling sequence i again grunt a couple more times, sometimes adding a "put put put".
Antler Rattling Tips: How to Call In Big Bucks During The Rut 2009
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I again grunt between the sequences in case something sneaks in and I can't see it.
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My dad swears the best grunt comes from the butt cheeks! he can squeeze a deep buck grunt all the way to a high pitched doe bleat.
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I again grunt between the sequences in case something sneaks in and I can't see it.
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After i finish a rattling sequence i again grunt a couple more times, sometimes adding a "put put put".
Antler Rattling Tips: How to Call In Big Bucks During The Rut 2009
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My dad swears the best grunt comes from the butt cheeks! he can squeeze a deep buck grunt all the way to a high pitched doe bleat.
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The bus was quiet, except for a few clangings of the metal door to the toilet, and an occasional snore or grunt from a fat man a few rows back, Numerous times during the night, Migracion officers boarded the bus, looked around and left.
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The bus was quiet, except for a few clangings of the metal door to the toilet, and an occasional snore or grunt from a fat man a few rows back, Numerous times during the night, Migracion officers boarded the bus, looked around and left.
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Grunts and slumps (the two names are interchangeable) are traditional desserts consisting of berries or diced fruit cooked under spoonfuls of biscuit dough.
Blueberry Grunt King Arthur Baking 2021
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It’s called the skivvy roll or grunt roll, and it combines a shirt, underwear, and socks into a single compact bundle.
Skivvy Roll Technique for Efficient Packing | RECOIL OFFGRID Patrick McCarthy 2016
elgiad007 commented on the word grunt
Generic Respondent and Undertaker of Nonstandard Tasks.
November 9, 2008
john commented on the word grunt
“A spoon pie, with biscuit dough on top of stewed fruit, which is steamed, not baked”
Ochef.com, Cobbler, Crisp, Crumble, Grunt, Slump—You Get the Picture
April 6, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word grunt
New England: A dessert made by stewing fruit topped with pieces of biscuit dough, which steam as the fruit cooks.
January 30, 2013