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grunt (enc)

Grunt

Noun1.grunt - the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound); "he enjoyed the street noises"; "they heard indistinct noises of people talking"; "during the firework display that ended the gala the noise reached 98 decibels"
2.grunt - an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker; "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training
3.grunt - medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught
percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
Haemulon album, margate - red-mouthed grunt found from Florida to Brazil
Haemulon aurolineatum, tomtate - found off the West Indies and Florida
cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum - of warm Atlantic waters
Haemulon parra, sailors choice, sailor's-choice - found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfish - black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil
Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompon - dusky gray food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward
Orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish, hogfish - found from Long Island southward
Verb1.grunt - issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his reluctant approval"
let loose, let out, utter, emit - express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand"

 

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