Dictionary Entry
grunt
grunt is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
- 2noun
A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
- 3noun
Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.
- 4noun
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
- 5noun
the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
Synonyms
- 6noun
an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
"infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"
"he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
- 7verb
issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise
"He grunted his reluctant approval"
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