grunt
gruhnt
- n the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
- n an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts
he went from grunt to chairman in six years - n medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
- v issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
He grunted his reluctant approval
- Come fall, bulldozers will grunt across the grounds, toppling the tall cypresses and pepperwoods.
- Rather than continue as the wealthy rock-poet of the American grunt and risk being labeled inauthentic, Springsteen set out for new territory.
- Fortnight ago ex-King Amanullah grunted and sweated on a Kandahar platform doing a cloak box trick to show his people that he was worthy to be their King (PTI, May 27).