GRUNTING
Etymology
Verb
grunting
present participle of grunt
Noun
grunting (plural gruntings)
A sound that grunts.
Source: Wiktionary
GRUNT
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