Usually means: Low, guttural sound; often displeasure.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. grunt: Merriam-Webster
  2. grunt: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. grunt: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. grunt: Collins English Dictionary
  5. grunt: Vocabulary.com
  6. Grunt, grunt: Wordnik
  7. grunt: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. grunt: Wiktionary
  9. grunt: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. grunt: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. grunt: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Grunt, grunt: Dictionary.com
  13. grunt: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. grunt: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Grunt (G.I. Joe), Grunt (fish), Grunt (horse), Grunt (software), Grunt, The Grunt: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Grunt: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. grunt: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. grunt: Rhymezone
  19. grunt: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. grunt: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. grunt: FreeDictionary.org
  22. grunt: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. grunt: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. grunt: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. grunt: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. grunt: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. grunt: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GRUNT: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. grunt: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. grunt, grunt: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. grunt: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Grunt (From Halo), Grunt: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mountain Bike Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
noun:  The snorting cry of a pig.
noun:  Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
noun:  A person who does ordinary and boring work.
noun:  (US, military slang) An infantry soldier.
noun:  (slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
noun:  (Canada, US) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts.
verb:  (intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts.
verb:  (intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.

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