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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: grunt
grunt
n 1: the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
2: an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker;
“infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts”;
“he went from
grunt to chairman in six years”
3: medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a
grunting sound when caught
v : issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise;
“He grunted his
reluctant approval”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Grunt
Grunt
\Grunt\ (gr[u^]nt), n.
1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
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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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3. A U. S. infantryman; -- used especially of those fighting
in the war in Vietnam. [slang]
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Grunt
\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.
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Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life. --Shak.
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Grunting ox (Zo["o]l.), the yak.
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