1. Issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
   "He grunted his reluctant approval"

1. The short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
   - oink 
2. An unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
   "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years" 
3. Medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

Derived forms: grunting, grunted, grunts

See also: grunter

Type of: emit, let loose, let out, noise, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, unskilled person, utter

Part of: family Haemulidae, Haemulidae

Encyclopedia: Grunt

• Cercidiphyllum japonicum
• Cercidium
• Cercidium floridum
• Cercis
• Cercis canadensis
• Cercis occidentalis
• Cercocebus
• Cercopidae
• Cercopithecidae
• Cercopithecus
• Cercopithecus aethiops
• Cercopithecus aethiops pygerythrus
• Cercopithecus aethiops sabaeus
• Cercopithecus talapoin
• Cercospora
• Cercospora kopkei
• Cercosporella
• cere
• cereal
• cereal bowl
• cereal box
• cereal grass
• cereal oat
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• cerebellar artery