grunt
grunted; grunting; grunts
If your younger brother is particularly grouchy, he might simply grunt in answer to your question about whose turn it is to take out the garbage. A grunt is a short, deep sound.
If you think about the noise a pig makes, you'll have a good idea of what a grunt sounds like. It's an animal-like sound that people make when they're inarticulate, angry, sullen, or lazy — or sometimes if they're hurt or afraid. Pigs and other animals grunt too, no matter what their moods may be. The Old English root word, grunnettan, most likely came from the sound of a grunt.
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issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
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the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
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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”
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type of:
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unskilled person
a person who lacks technical training
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unskilled person
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medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
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Haemulon album, margate
a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil
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Haemulon macrostomum, Spanish grunt
a kind of grunt
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Haemulon aurolineatum, tomtate
found off the West Indies and Florida
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Haemulon malanurum, cottonwick
of warm Atlantic waters
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Haemulon parra, sailor's-choice, sailors choice
a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
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Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfish
black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil
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Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompon
dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward
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Orthopristis chrysopterus, hogfish, pigfish
found from Long Island southward
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percoid, percoid fish, percoidean
any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
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