VERB | communication | grunt | issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise |
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NOUN | event | grunt, oink | the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs |
person | grunt | an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker | |
animal | grunt | medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught |
Sounds | grah'nt | |
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Rhymes | abandonment ... wonderment: 671 rhymes with ahnt... |
Meaning | The short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs. | |
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Synonym | oink | |
Broader | noise | sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) |
Spanish | oink | |
Catalan | grunyit, oink | |
Verbs | grunt | issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise |
Meaning | An unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker. | |
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Broader | unskilled person | A person who lacks technical training |
Meaning | medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught. | |
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Member of | Haemulidae, family Haemulidae | grunts |
Narrower | Spanish grunt, Haemulon macrostomum | A kind of grunt |
cottonwick, Haemulon malanurum | Of warm Atlantic waters | |
margate, Haemulon album | A grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil | |
pigfish, hogfish, Orthopristis chrysopterus | Found from Long Island southward | |
pompon, black margate, Anisotremus surinamensis | dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward | |
porkfish, pork-fish, Anisotremus virginicus | black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil | |
sailor's-choice, sailors choice, Haemulon parra | A grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico | |
tomtate, Haemulon aurolineatum | Found off the West Indies and Florida | |
Broader | percoid fish, percoid, percoidean | Any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
Meaning | issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise. | |
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Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s that CLAUSE | |
Example | "He grunted his reluctant approval" | |
Broader | utter, emit, let out, let loose | Express audibly |
Spanish | gruñir | |
Catalan | grunyir | |
Nouns | grunt | the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs |
grunter | domestic swine | |
grunter | a person who grunts |
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