grunter
/ˈɡɹʌntə/
grunter noun: one who grunts.
Noun
grunter (plural grunters)
- One who grunts.
- Dalton, the winner of nine grand slam doubles titles, claims she would have been prepared to forfeit a match against the grunter par excellence, Maria Sharapova — and has urged the current generation of tennis players to do so.2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age
- Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
- A pig.
- We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]1849, Tennyson, Poems, volume 2, page 224
- A pig fight on board ship has always amused me very much: stand on the bridge, and look down into the crowded pen of grunters […]1875, W. R. Ancketill, The Adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P.
- A hook used in lifting a crucible.
grunter meaning in Tamil and Urdu
grunter in Tamil
- நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்
grunter in Urdu
- دھوتر مچھلی
Synonyms of grunter
- tiger perch
Forms of grunter
| plural | grunters |
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Origin of grunter
From grunt + -er.
Words formed from grunter
- half a grunter
- Adamson's grunter
- barred grunter
- black-blotch grunter
- Drysdale grunter
- Fortescue grunter
- Gilbert's grunter
- Greenway's grunter
- Jamur Lake grunter
- Kimberley grunter
- lake grunter
- large-scale grunter
- leathery grunter
- long-nosed sooty grunter
- Lorentz's grunter
- mountain grunter
- Raymond's grunter
- Röemer's grunter
- Sepik grunter
- silver grunter
- small-headed grunter
- sooty grunter
- tapiroid grunter
- threespot grunter
- tiger grunter
Words that rhyme with grunter
Questions about grunter
- What does grunter mean?
- Grunter means one who grunts.
- What is grunter in Tamil?
- Grunter in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், மீன் இனங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Grunter meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is grunter?
- Grunter is a noun.
- How do you pronounce grunter?
- Grunter is pronounced /ˈɡɹʌntə/.
- What is the plural of grunter?
- The plural of grunter is grunters.
Words near grunter in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: grunter (page history and authors); grunter (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); grunter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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