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grunters

grunters is the plural of grunter.

Meaning of grunter

Noun

grunter (plural grunters)

  1. 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
  2. Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
  3. (slang) 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
  4. (dated, brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

Phrases with grunters

Questions about grunters

What is grunters the plural of?
Grunters is the plural of grunter.

Words near grunters in the dictionary

  1. grunt-horn
  2. grunt-horns
  3. grunt-level
  4. grunted
  5. grunter
  6. grunters
  7. Grunth
  8. grunthee
  9. grunthees
  10. grunthi
  11. grunthis

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