gruntnoun/ɡɹʌnt/

• 1

  A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.

  • The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
• 2

  The snorting cry of a pig.

• 3

  Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.

• 4

  A person who does ordinary and boring work.

• 5

  slanggovernmentmilitarypoliticsAn infantry soldier.

  • The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.
  • The events described are those encountered by only 160 men, though the adversity recounted is representative of that experienced by all grunts in Vietnam.
• 6

  slangThe amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.

  • The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […]
  • With this much grunt, it is surprising that the engine is relatively quiet.
• 7

  A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.

gruntverb/ɡɹʌnt/

• 1

  To make a grunt or grunts.

  • to grunt and sweat under a weary life
  • The silhouette sharpens and fades as the carving is moved before the flames of the hearth, its maker grunts in perfect imitation of the ancestor - a human-lioness in oestrus.
• 2

  To make a grunt or grunts.

• 3

  slangTo break wind; to fart.

  • Who just grunted?