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grunt

/ grunt /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
Type of:
percoid fish percoid percoidean
Kinds of:
margate Haemulon album Spanish grunt Haemulon macrostomum tomtate
Has parts:
Haemulidae family Haemulidae
noun Sense 2
the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
Type of:
noise
noun Sense 3
an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
"infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"
"he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
Type of:
unskilled person
verb Sense 4
issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
"He grunted his reluctant approval"
Type of:
utter emit let out
Derived:
grunter hog pig squealer Sus scrofa
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s somebody
Semantic Complexity
60%
Sense Count
4
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
20
Times Searched
16
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Related Words

percoid fish percoid percoidean margate Haemulon album Spanish grunt Haemulon macrostomum tomtate noise unskilled person utter emit