• IPA: /ɡɹʌnt/

grunt (plural grunts)

1. A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
2. The snorting cry of a pig.
3. Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
4. A person who does ordinary and boring work.
5. (United States Army and Marine Corps slang) An infantry soldier.
6. (slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
   • 1992, Autocar & Motor (volume 192, page 61)

     The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […]

   • 2006, Torque (February 2006, page 56)

     With this much grunt, it is surprising that the engine is relatively quiet.

7. (North American) A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.

• (person who does ordinary work) gofer, lackey, peon
• (dessert) fungy, fungee

• French: grognement
• German: Grunzer, Stöhnen
• Italian: grugnito
• Portuguese: grunido
• Russian: ворча́ние
• Spanish: gruñido

• German: Grunzen
• Italian: grugnito
• Portuguese: grunido
• Russian: хрю́канье

• German: Grunzer

• German: Hucker, Handlanger, Hilfsarbeiter, Ungelernter, Hiwi (pejorative)
• Spanish: currito

• French: bidasse, troufion
• Spanish: machaca

• German: Wumms, Pfeffer

grunt (grunts, present participle grunting; past and past participle grunted)

• Frequentative: gruntle

1. (intransitive, of a person) To make a grunt or grunts.
   • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act III, scene i]:

     to grunt and sweat under a weary life

2. (intransitive, of a pig) To make a grunt or grunts.
3. (intransitive, UK, slang) To break wind; to fart.

   Who just grunted?

• German: grunzen
• Portuguese: grunir
• Russian: ворча́ть
• Spanish: gruñir

• French: grogner
• German: grunzen
• Italian: grugnire
• Portuguese: grunir
• Russian: хрю́кать