grunter

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Etymology

grunt +‎ -er

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Noun

grunter (plural grunters)

  1. One who grunts.
    • 2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age‎:
      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.
  2. Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
  3. (slang) A pig.
    • 1849, Tennyson, Poems, volume 2, page 224:
      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[.]
    • 1875, W. R. Ancketill, The Adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P.:
      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 […]
  4. (dated, brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

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