Crossword clues for grunter
grunter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grunt \Grunt\ (gr[u^]nt), n.
A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
(Zo["o]l.) Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus H[ae]mulon, 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.
A U. S. infantryman; -- used especially of those fighting in the war in Vietnam. [slang]
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who grunts. 2 Any of a group of fish of the family ''(taxlink Terapontidae family noshow=1)'', which make a grunting sound when caught. 3 (context dated brass founding English) A hook used in lifting a crucible.
WordNet
Usage examples of "grunter".
Boring meat-eaters, ferocious farters, grunters, toilers, industrial oxen, blank-eyed suet-brained party trolls.
Those massed indifferents will learn to quake: Now meanwhile is another mass awake, Once denser than the grunters of the sty.
But during calms the flies of idle aim Less put the spirit out, less baffle thirst For light than swinish grunters, blest or curst.