Sekirov Dictionary

grunt

/ɡɹʌnt/

noun 7
verb 2
forms 3
phrases 2

noun7

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A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
- The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself. — 1861
The snorting cry of a pig.
A person who does ordinary and boring work.
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(US, slang) An infantry soldier.
- The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet. — 1979
•
(slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
- The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […] — 1992
Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
(US, Canada) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.

verb2

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To make a grunt or grunts.
- The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus. — 2018
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(UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.
- Who just grunted?

forms

grunted · grunting · grunts

Phrases with grunt

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