grunt
to utter the deep, guttural sound characteristic of a hog.
to utter a similar sound.
to grumble, as in discontent.
to express with a grunt.
a sound of grunting.
New England Cooking. a dessert, typically of cherries, peaches, or apples sweetened and spiced, and topped with biscuit dough.: See also pandowdy.
any food fish of the family Pomadasyidae (Haemulidae), found chiefly in tropical and subtropical seas, that emits grunting sounds.
Slang. a soldier, especially an infantryman.
Slang. a common or unskilled worker; laborer.
Origin of grunt
1Other words from grunt
- grunt·ing·ly, adverb
Words Nearby grunt
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How to use grunt in a sentence
During this time, bull elk vie for the attention of cows, piercing the mountain air with their signature bugles, grunts, chuckles, and screams.
As Amanda Stent, an NLP expert for financial news and information service Bloomberg, explained, technologies like BERT are important because they remove a lot of the grunt work required to train a language model from scratch.
That’s when they saw there was an opportunity here to build a tool to track all of this information in one place and connect it to Salesforce to automate a lot of this grunt work.
Scratchpad announces $3.6M seed to put work space on top of Salesforce | Ron Miller | October 6, 2020 | TechCrunchThe good news is that developing a successful digital marketing strategy is possible, and it doesn’t have to take grunt work or cost you more than a cup of coffee a day.
When Palantir built a new software platform, Foundry, in 2016, the company cut costs by automating much of the grunt work and said it reduced time to set up customers from months to days.
The grunt takes a hard look at our interpreter, rotates his M16 and opens the vehicle door, motioning for us to get out.
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe grunt asks us where we are going and we respond, “to the Korengal.”
Heart of Darkness: Into Afghanistan’s Taliban Valley | Matt Trevithick, Daniel Seckman | November 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs a grunt, he lectured a high-ranking officer in protest of Marines who attacked a Vietnamese child.
Crime Fighter’s Dilemma: My Country or My Family? | Moral Courage | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFortunately, the Food Sense App for the iPhone does the grunt work for you.
Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went.
Come On, ‘Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ Can Handle More Violence | Sujay Kumar | November 29, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThe noise of his slumbers culminated in a sudden, choking grunt, and abruptly ceased.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniYou must imagine this sound as something between a grunt and a groan, that the estimable lady gave vent to whenever put out.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodHis next line—'To grunt and sweat under a weary life'—resembles ll.
Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) -- Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems | Geoffrey ChaucerUp went the monster with a grunt, and a peculiar rigidity of body, which evidently betokened horror at his situation.
The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands | R.M. BallantyneAfter they had passed, a lull fell on the scene, which was soon broken by the grunt and snort of a rhinoceros.
Kari the Elephant | Dhan Gopal Mukerji
British Dictionary definitions for grunt
/ (ɡrʌnt) /
(intr) (esp of pigs and some other animals) to emit a low short gruff noise
(when tr, may take a clause as object) to express something gruffly: he grunted his answer
the characteristic low short gruff noise of pigs, etc, or a similar sound, as of disgust
any of various mainly tropical marine sciaenid fishes, such as Haemulon macrostomum (Spanish grunt), that utter a grunting sound when caught
US slang an infantry soldier or US Marine, esp in the Vietnam War
Origin of grunt
1Derived forms of grunt
- gruntingly, adverb
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