GRUNT
\ɡɹˈʌnt], \ɡɹˈʌnt], \ɡ_ɹ_ˈʌ_n_t]\
Definitions of GRUNT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
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the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
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an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
By Princeton University
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medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
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the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
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A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
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Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, 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.
By Oddity Software
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To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
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A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
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Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, 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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman