"grunt" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

The short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs (synset 107399214)
is a type of: noise - sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)

same as: oink
An unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker (synset 110168761)
"infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from grunt to chairman in six years"

is a type of: unskilled person - a person who lacks technical training
Medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught (synset 102590916)
is a type of: percoid, percoid fish, percoidean - any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
subtypes:
- haemulon album, margate - a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil
- haemulon macrostomum, spanish grunt - a kind of grunt
- haemulon aurolineatum, tomtate - found off the West Indies and Florida
- cottonwick, haemulon malanurum - of warm Atlantic waters
- haemulon parra, sailor's-choice, sailors choice - a grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico
- anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfish - black and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil
- anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompon - dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward
- hogfish, orthopristis chrysopterus, pigfish - found from Long Island southward
belongs to: family haemulidae, haemulidae - grunts

Verb

Issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise (synset 201045103)
"He grunted his reluctant approval"

is a type of: emit, let loose, let out, utter - express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)