grunt

From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”). Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”).

• IPA^(key): /ɡɹʌnt/

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• Rhymes: -ʌnt

grunt (plural grunts)

1. A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, Chapter X:

     The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.

2. The snorting cry of a pig.
3. Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
4. A person who does ordinary and boring work.
5. (United States Army and Marine Corps slang) An infantry soldier. (From the verb, just like all the other senses.[1])
6. (slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
   • 1992, Autocar & Motor (volume 192, page 61)

     The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […]

   • 2006, Torque (February 2006, page 56)

     With this much grunt, it is surprising that the engine is relatively quiet.

7. (Canada, US) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.

• (person who does ordinary work): gofer, lackey, peon
• (dessert): fungy, fungee

• grunt boy
• grunt-level
• grunt level
• grunt work

grunt (third-person singular simple present grunts, present participle grunting, simple past and past participle grunted)

• Frequentative: gruntle

1. (intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts.
   • Shakespeare

     to grunt and sweat under a weary life

2. (intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts.
3. (intransitive, Britain, slang) To break wind; to fart.

   Who just grunted?

grunt

1. Alternative form of grunten

grunt

1. neuter singular of grunn

grunt

1. neuter singular of grunn

From Proto-Germanic *grunduz.

grunt m

1. ground

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• Middle Dutch: gront
  • Dutch: grond

• “grunt”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Borrowed from German Grund.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrunt/

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grunt m inan

1. (construction, geology) soil
2. ground (the bottom of a body of water)

• gruntowność
• gruntowy
• gruntowny
• gruntownie

• grunt in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from German Grund.

• IPA^(key): /ɡrûnt/

grȕnt m (Cyrillic spelling гру̏нт)

1. (regional) plot of land, lot

grunt

1. absolute indefinite neuter form of grund.

grunt

1. shallowly

   gentemot såväl grundt rationalistiska som känslosamt svärmiska religiösa riktningar.

   towards both shallowly rationalistic and emotionally fanatical religious tendencies.