grunter
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɡɽʌntə/
- Rhymes: -ʌntə(r)
Noun
grunter (plural grunters)
- One who grunts.
- (Can we date this quote?), Tennyson
- Bristled grunters.
- 2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age:
- 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.
- (Can we date this quote?), Tennyson
- Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
- (dated, brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.
Synonyms
- (fish): tiger perch
Derived terms
The fish
- 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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