intransitive verb. To utter a deep guttural sound, as a hog does.

intransitive verb. To utter a sound similar to a grunt, as in disgust.

intransitive verb. To utter or express with a deep guttural sound.

noun. A deep guttural sound.

noun. Any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes of the family Haemulidae that produce a grunting sound by rubbing together their pharyngeal teeth.

noun. An infantryman in the US military, especially in the Vietnam War.

noun. One who performs routine or mundane tasks.

noun. A dessert made by stewing fruit topped with pieces of biscuit dough, which steam as the fruit cooks.

To make a guttural noise, as a hog; also, to utter short or broken groans, as from eagerness or over-exertion.

noun. A deep guttural sound, as that made by a hog.

noun. A fish of the family Hæmulonidæ, as those of the genera Hœmulon and Orthopristis: so called from the noise they make when hauled out of the water. Also called pig-fish and growler for the same reason. See redmouth.

noun. Among the various fishes of the genus Hæmulon and family Hæmulidæ, so named, are the following:

transitive verb. To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.

transitive verb. the yak.

noun. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.

noun. Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Hæmulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

noun. A U. S. infantryman; -- used especially of those fighting in the war in Vietnam.

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

noun. The snorting cry of a pig.

noun. A family of Perciformes fish of the family Haemulidae

noun. An infantry soldier. (From the sound he presumably makes when shouldering a pack before starting a road march.)

verb. Of a person: To make a grunt or grunts.

verb. Of a pig: To make a grunt or grunts.

noun. medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught

noun. an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker

noun. the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs

verb. issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise

"Since you say you excel at conceptual tasks, I challenge you to see if you can develop a more creative and/or stream-lined approach to what you call the grunt work."

white grunt  

grunt boy  grunt work  grunted  grunting  

emit  let loose  let out  noise  unskilled person  

Hunt  Lunt  affront  blunt  brunt  

bellow  chuckle  grimace  groan  growl  

Zouave  air a grievance  animal noise  bark  barking  

grunter  pigfish  squirrel fish  

grunted  grunting  grunts