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

1. transitive verb. To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
2. noun. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
5. noun. the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs

   Synonyms: oink

6. noun. an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker

   "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"

   "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"

7. verb. issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise

   "He grunted his reluctant approval"

Synonyms

oink

Common word forms

grunts, grunted, grunter, grunting

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