Crossword clues for grunting
grunting
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grunt \Grunt\ (gr[u^]nt), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grunting.] [OE. grunten; akin to As. grunian, G. grunzen, Dan. grynte, Sw. grymta; all prob. of imitative; or perh. akin to E. groan.] To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life.
--Shak.
Grunting ox (Zo["o]l.), the yak.
Wiktionary
n. A sound that grunts. vb. (present participle of grunt English)
WordNet
adj. making short inarticulate guttural sounds as of effort expended; "ferries grunting on the river"; "grunting boxers"
Usage examples of "grunting".
Elvis was a failing Elvis, the gargantuan grunting underbelly of the American dream, reduced to passing out sweaty scarves and brand-new Cadillacs.
It was in fact a pig rooting, as fine a babirussa as he had ever seen: the animal was snorting and grunting at a great rate, wholly intent upon a wealth of tubers.
Dairaine began struggling against her bonds again and grunting harder than ever.
The buffalos threw up their heads, and, grunting loudly, charged down on the spot, and then in a body went charging on through the brushwood.
Sharpe had already undone his crossbelts and was shrugging off the wool coat, grunting with the pain that the exertion gave to his back.
He came level with the edge of the rock platform, and there was Tungata braced against the far wall, a loop of the rope over his back and shoulder, hauling doublehanded on the rope with the cords standing out in his throat and his mouth open, grunting with the effort.
Grunting heavily, Erian twisted himself into a sitting position and looked around.
Abies behind him, followed by a grunting noise, Fagin shutting him up.
The orcs spoke among themselves in a grunting, gargling language that sounded like someone choking.
Between the grunting and the sickening smell, Havers was dying to get home.
The Professor could hear her muffled sobs beneath the hoglike gruntings of the creature violating her.
A grunting, crunching ballet of repressed homoeroticism, football, Ms.
He shrugged and mounted the girl, who threw arms and legs about him while grunting with pleasure.
In the shadows of the buildings and out beneath the radiance of the Martian moons moved the great herd of thoats and zitidars, the latter grunting their low gutturals and the former occasionally emitting the sharp squeal which denotes the almost habitual state of rage in which these creatures passed their existence.
The noise increased--crash on crash, plunge on plunge--with the thick grunting of a hotly pressed nilghai, flying in panic terror and taking no heed to his course.