noun
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a person or animal that grunts, esp a pig
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another name for grunt
Etymology
Origin of grunter
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at grunt, -er 1
Example Sentences
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A natural grunter, he was greeted by big laughs and phones aloft the moment he stepped out of a van across from the American Museum of Natural History.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Neither Sinner nor McDonald is a grunter or emotes excessively.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2021
In those matches with a grunter, especially if the non-grunter is losing, I always wish the other player would start grunting.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 2018
Though Tinling didn't name names, Collins has said multiple times that the first grunter he can remember was a junior player from Arizona named Vicki Palmer.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2011
He points them at a grunter, which plunges through the farmyard.
From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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