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grunt

   [gruhnt]
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.
verb (used with object)
4.
to express with a grunt.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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noun
5.
a sound of grunting.
6.
New England Cookery. a dessert, typically of cherries, peaches, or apples sweetened and spiced, and topped with biscuit dough.
7.
any food fish of the family Pomadasyidae (Haemulidae), found chiefly in tropical and subtropical seas, that emits grunting sounds.
8.
Slang. a soldier, especially an infantryman.
9.
Slang. a common or unskilled worker; laborer.
Origin:
before 900; Middle English grunten, Old English grunnettan, frequentative of grunian to grunt; cognate with German grunzen, Latin grunnīre

Related forms
grunt·ing·ly, adverb
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grunt
O.E. grunnettan, freq. of grunian "to grunt," probably imitative. The noun meaning "infantry" emerged in U.S. military slang during Vietnam War (first recorded in print 1969); used since 1900 of various low-level workers. Grunt work first recorded 1977.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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grunt definition

[grənt]
  1. n.
    an infantry soldier. (Military. From the gutteral sound made by a pig, and anyone doing very heavy labor.) : Get those grunts out on the field at sunrise!
  2. n.
    a low-ranking or subservient person. (Someone who is likely to utter a grunt because of the discomforts of menial labor.) : Let's hire a grunt to do this kind of work.
  3. n.
    a belch. : Does that grunt mean you like my cooking?
  4. n.
    a hardworking student. : The grunts got Bs on the test. It was that hard!
  5. n.
    a wrestler. (Possibly in reference to a grunting pig.) : Two big grunts wearing outlandish costumes performed for the television cameras.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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