grunter

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grunt

 (grŭnt)
v. grunt·ed, grunt·ing, grunts
v.intr.
1. To utter a deep guttural sound, as a hog does.
2. To utter a sound similar to a grunt, as in disgust.
v.tr.
To utter or express with a deep guttural sound: He merely grunted his approval.
n.
1. A deep guttural sound.
2. Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Haemulidae that produce a grunting sound by rubbing together their pharyngeal teeth.
3. Slang An infantryman in the US military, especially in the Vietnam War: "They were called grunts....They were the infantrymen, the foot soldiers of the war" (Bernard Edelman).
4. Slang One who performs routine or mundane tasks.
5. New England A dessert made by stewing fruit topped with pieces of biscuit dough, which steam as the fruit cooks. Also called slump.

[Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan; probably akin to grunnian, to make a loud noise, grunt, of imitative origin.]

grunt′er n.
grunt′ing·ly adv.
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grunter

(ˈɡrʌntə)
n
1. a person or animal that grunts, esp a pig
2. (Animals) another name for grunt4
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.grunter - a person who grunts
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
2.grunter - domestic swinegrunter - domestic swine      
swine - stout-bodied short-legged omnivorous animals
genus Sus, Sus - type genus of the Suidae
porker - a pig fattened to provide meat
trotter - foot of a pig or sheep especially one used as food
porc - meat from a domestic hog or pig
lard - soft white semisolid fat obtained by rendering the fatty tissue of the hog
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References in classic literature ?
Fangs!'' he ejaculated at the top of his voice to a ragged wolfish-looking dog, a sort of lurcher, half mastiff, half greyhound, which ran limping about as if with the purpose of seconding his master in collecting the refractory grunters; but which, in fact, from misapprehension of the swine-herd's signals, ignorance of his own duty, or malice prepense, only drove them hither and thither, and increased the evil which he seemed to design to remedy.
Then the woman has not a cloven hoof for her dairy, or her loom, and I believe even the grunters, foot sore as they be, are ploughing the prairie.
And that was a day of romance; If those robber-barons were somewhat grim and drunken ogres, they had a certain grandeur of the wild beast in them,--they were forest boars with tusks, tearing and rending, not the ordinary domestic grunter; they represented the demon forces forever in collision with beauty, virtue, and the gentle uses of life; they made a fine contrast in the picture with the wandering minstrel, the soft-lipped princess, the pious recluse, and the timid Israelite.
Uncle Venner's pig was fed entirely, and kept in prime order, on these eleemosynary contributions; insomuch that the patched philosopher used to promise that, before retiring to his farm, he would make a feast of the portly grunter, and invite all his neighbors to partake of the joints and spare-ribs which they had helped to fatten.
That foxey old grunter and grinder, sir, turns into the yard this morning, to meddle with our property, a menial tool of his own, a young man by the name of Sloppy.
Sandy Bay was also productive today with one angler netting between 35 on Grunters and Buzzers.
Gatland's grunters did a big number at the scrum, with Tadgh Furlong having an immense game on the tighthead, shredding his opposite number.
New river inflows usually meant the mud prawns started getting restless and began to vas-trap about the shallow-submeiged and silty banks, whilst shoals of spotted grunters appeared and came fully on the feed.
They refer to us dismissively as The Grunters. I don't mind, I just get a bit miffed when they do the noises during family gatherings.
Thus, whole spotted grunters kept in ice were organoleptically acceptable to the taste panel until the 18th day of storage, Jonsdottir [17].
He will be joined by compatriot and fourth seedAgnieszka Radwanska, who silencedMichelle Larcher De Brito, one of the noisiest grunters on the tour, 6-2 6-0.