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
Josh’s 2011 story on tennis’ first grunter, Victoria Heinicke.
From Slate ● Jan. 30, 2012
There are sheds, and a hen-house, and a pigeon-house, and an old stone pigsty, the open portion of which is overgrown with tall weeds, indicating that no grunter has recently occupied it.
From Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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