GRUNT

grunt

(noun) medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

grunt, oink

(noun) the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs

grunt

(noun) an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; “infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts”; “he went from grunt to chairman in six years”

grunt

(verb) issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; “He grunted his reluctant approval”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

grunt (plural grunts)

A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.

The snorting cry of a pig.

Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.

A person who does ordinary and boring work.

(United States Army and Marine Corps slang) An infantry soldier.

(slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.

(North American) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.

Synonyms

• (person who does ordinary work): gofer, lackey, peon

• (dessert): fungy, fungee

Verb

grunt (third-person singular simple present grunts, present participle grunting, simple past and past participle grunted)

(intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts.

(intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts.

(intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.

Source: Wiktionary

Grunt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grunting.] Etym: [OE. grunten; akin to As. grunian, G. grunzen, Dan. grynte, Sw. grymta; all prob. of imitative; or perh. akin to E. groan.]

Definition: To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life. Shak. Grunting ox (Zoöl.), the yak.

Grunt, n.

1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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 also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition