1. Issue a gruff, low, animal-like noise
   "He grunted his reluctant approval"

1. The short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs
   "The grunt of pigs could be heard from the nearby farm";
   - oink
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] An unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker
   "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"
    
3. Medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught
   "The fisherman could hear the grunts as he pulled in his catch"

Derived forms: grunted, grunting, grunts

Type of: emit, let loose, let out, noise, percoid, percoid fish, percoidean, unskilled person, utter

Part of: family Haemulidae, Haemulidae

Encyclopedia: Grunt