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say it: gruhnt
grunt is a noun and verb meaning "the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs". It carries 4 recorded senses.
an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
“infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts”
“he went from grunt to chairman in six years”
medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for grunt come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.