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- Dictionarygrunt/ɡrʌnt/
verb
- 1. (of an animal, especially a pig) make a low, short guttural sound: "an enormous pig grunted and shuffled in a sty outside"
noun
- 1. a low, short guttural sound made by an animal or a person: "with snorts and grunts the animals were coaxed down the ramp"
- 2. a low-ranking soldier or unskilled worker: informal North American "he went from grunt to senior executive vice president in five years"
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GRUNT definition: 1. (of a pig) to make a low, rough noise: 2. (of a person) to make a short, low sound instead of…. Learn more.
noun. plural grunts. 1. a. : the deep short sound characteristic of a hog. b. : a similar sound. 2. [from the noise it makes when taken from the water] : any of a family (Haemulidae synonym Pomadasyidae) of chiefly tropical marine bony fishes. 3. : a dessert made by dropping biscuit dough on top of boiling berries and steaming. blueberry grunt. 4.
GRUNT meaning: 1. (of a pig) to make a low, rough noise: 2. (of a person) to make a short, low sound instead of…. Learn more.
Grunt definition: to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.. See examples of GRUNT used in a sentence.
If you grunt, you make a low sound, especially because you are annoyed or not interested in something.
grunt. ( ɡrʌnt) vb. 1. (Zoology) ( intr) (esp of pigs and some other animals) to emit a low short gruff noise. 2. ( when tr, may take a clause as object) to express something gruffly: he grunted his answer. n.
A grunt is a short, deep sound. If you think about the noise a pig makes, you'll have a good idea of what a grunt sounds like. It's an animal-like sound that people make when they're inarticulate, angry, sullen, or lazy — or sometimes if they're hurt or afraid.
