Definitions for grunts

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Spelling: [gruhnt]

IPA: /grʌnt/

Grunts is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 89 anagrams from letters in grunts (gnrstu).

Definitions for grunts

noun

1. a sound of grunting.
2. New England Cookery. a dessert, typically of cherries, peaches, or apples sweetened and spiced, and topped with biscuit dough.
3. any food fish of the family Pomadasyidae (Haemulidae), found chiefly in tropical and subtropical seas, that emits grunting sounds.
4. Slang. a soldier, especially an infantryman.
5. Slang. a common or unskilled worker; laborer.

verb (used with object)

1. to express with a grunt.

verb (used without object)

1. to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
2. to utter a similar sound.
3. to grumble, as in discontent.

Origin of grunts

before 900; Middle English grunten, Old English grunnettan, frequentative of grunian to grunt; cognate with German grunzen, Latin grunnīre

Examples for grunts

He did not speak, but he made an inarticulate noise between a grunt and a sniff.

The grunt of the human hog (Pignoramus intolerabilis) with an audible memory.

There was a brief shifting of eyes toward him, and a grunt from Jeff; that was all.

The grunt takes a hard look at our interpreter, rotates his M16 and opens the vehicle door, motioning for us to get out.

Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went.

Mr Verloc, after a grunt of disapproving surprise, returned to the sofa.

As a grunt, he lectured a high-ranking officer in protest of Marines who attacked a Vietnamese child.

The grunt asks us where we are going and we respond, “to the Korengal.”

The three gave Andy a look and a grunt, but otherwise they paid no attention to him.

Fortunately, the Food Sense App for the iPhone does the grunt work for you.