grunt
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
military
politics
war
Etymology: From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”).
Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.
Inflected forms:
form: grunts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: grunts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: grunting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: grunted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: grunted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
pos: noun
examples: The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
gloss: The snorting cry of a pig.
pos: noun
gloss: Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
pos: noun
gloss: A person who does ordinary and boring work.
pos: noun
gloss: An infantry soldier.
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.
The events described are those encountered by only 160 men, though the adversity recounted is representative of that experienced by all grunts in Vietnam.
He can't make that kind of decision. He's just a grunt!
gloss: The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […]
With this much grunt, it is surprising that the engine is relatively quiet.
The lack of bottom-end grunt presents as a particular problem in hilly terrain where the five-speed manual gearbox really earns its keep.
gloss: A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
gloss: To make a grunt or grunts.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: to grunt and sweat under a weary life
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.
gloss: To make a grunt or grunts.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To break wind; to fart.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
slang
examples: Who just grunted?
Derived words: death grunt
grungy
grunt boy
grunt-horn
grunt level
grunt-level
gruntlike
gruntling
gruntometer
gruntspeak
gruntulous
grunt work
Margaret grunt
margate grunt
grunter
Translations:
lang: Aromanian
word: gurnjescu
lang: Bulgarian
word: сумтя
roman: sumtja
lang: Czech
word: vrčet
lang: Czech
word: zavrčet
lang: Czech
word: bručet
lang: Czech
word: zabručet
lang: Czech
word: odseknout
lang: Danish
word: fnyse
lang: Finnish
word: murahtaa
lang: Finnish
word: murista
lang: French
word: grogner
lang: Galician
word: rosmar
lang: Galician
word: roñar
lang: Galician
word: moumear
lang: Galician
word: guincar
lang: Galician
word: cuincar
lang: German
word: grunzen
lang: Greek
word: γρυλίζω
roman: grylízo
lang: Greek
word: γρυλλίζω
roman: gryllízo
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γρῡλίζω
roman: grūlízō
lang: Ancient Greek
word: γρυλλίζω
roman: grullízō
lang: Hungarian
word: felmordul
lang: Hungarian
word: morog
lang: Ido
word: grunar
lang: Latin
word: grunniō
lang: Māori
word: ngengere
lang: Māori
word: ngunguru
lang: Māori
word: whēnanau
lang: Māori
word: ngō
lang: Māori
word: kumukumu
lang: Māori
word: horu
lang: Māori
word: ngengeri
lang: Middle English
word: grunten
lang: Norman
word: gronner
lang: Old English
word: grunnian
lang: Old English
word: grunnettan
lang: Portuguese
word: grunir
lang: Romanian
word: grohăi
lang: Romanian
word: mârâi
lang: Romanian
word: mormăi
lang: Russian
word: ворча́ть
roman: vorčátʹ
lang: Russian
word: бурча́ть
roman: burčátʹ
lang: Spanish
word: gruñir
lang: Swedish
word: grymta
lang: Basque
word: kurrinkatu
lang: Bulgarian
word: грухтя
roman: gruhtja
lang: Catalan
word: grunyir
lang: Czech
word: chrochtat
lang: Czech
word: zachrochtat
lang: Danish
word: grynte
lang: Esperanto
word: grunti
lang: Faroese
word: rína
lang: Finnish
word: röhkäistä
lang: Finnish
word: röhkiä
lang: Galician
word: cuiñar
lang: Galician
word: louriñar
lang: Galician
word: gorlar
lang: Galician
word: arruar
lang: Galician
word: rellar
lang: Hungarian
word: röfög
lang: Italian
word: grugnire
lang: Khmer
word: ង៉េកៗ
roman: ngeek-ngeek
lang: Macedonian
word: гровта
roman: grovta
lang: Māori
word: horuhoru
lang: Russian
word: хрю́кать
roman: xrjúkatʹ
lang: Vietnamese
word: ủn ỉn