grunter en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈɡɹʌntə/
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From grunt + -er.
Meanings
-
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.
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(slang) A pig.
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.: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:
- (dated, qualifier:brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| grunters | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
large-scale grunter · threespot grunter · Fortescue grunter · small-headed grunter · tapiroid grunter · barred grunter · sooty grunter · black-blotch grunter · lake grunter · Gilbert's grunter · long-nosed sooty grunter · Lorentz's grunter · tiger grunter · silver grunter · leathery grunter · Jamur Lake grunter · Greenway's grunter · Drysdale grunter · Kimberley grunter · half a grunter · Röemer's grunter · Adamson's grunter · Sepik grunter · mountain grunter · Raymond's grunter