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grunter

noun
/ˈɡɹʌntə/

Etymology

From grunt + -er.

  1. derived from *gʰrun-✻ — “to shout”
  2. derived from *grunnōną✻ — “to grunt”
  3. inherited from *grunnatjaną✻ — “to grunt”
  4. inherited from *grunnattjan✻
  5. inherited from grunnettan — “to grunt”
  6. inherited from grunten
  7. suffixed as grunter — “grunt + er”

Definitions

  1. One who grunts.

    • Dalton, the winner of nine grand slam doubles titles, claims she would have been prepared to forfeit a match against the grunter par excellence, Maria Sharapova — and has urged the current generation of tennis players to do so.

  2. Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when…

    Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.

  3. A pig.

    • We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]
    • A pig fight on board ship has always amused me very much: stand on the bridge, and look down into the crowded pen of grunters […]
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A hook used in lifting a crucible.

The neighborhood

Derived

half a grunter, Adamson's grunter, barred grunter, black-blotch grunter, Drysdale grunter, Fortescue grunter, Gilbert's grunter, Greenway's grunter, Jamur Lake grunter, Kimberley grunter, lake grunter, large-scale grunter, leathery grunter, long-nosed sooty grunter, Lorentz's grunter, mountain grunter, Raymond's grunter, Röemer's grunter, Sepik grunter, silver grunter, small-headed grunter, sooty grunter, tapiroid grunter, threespot grunter, tiger grunter

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA