grunt
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8.4
- noun
- /ɡrʌnt/
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pez gruñidor
- Its title and opening lines resonate with the grainy language of Heaney's early work: "Perch we called 'grunts,' little flood-slubs, runty and ready, / I saw and I see in the river's glorified body."
- grunts and snappers
- grunt call
Examples
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The Mekong will eat a grunt's feet right off his legs.
Fiction book (1994) -
The fisherman caught several grunts while out at sea, which he planned to grill for dinner.
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All I could hear was the snuffle and grunt of Margaret's pigs.
Fiction book (2000) -
During our tropical vacation, we enjoyed a delicious meal of grunt that was freshly caught.
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As I filleted the grunt, I noticed how its flesh was firm and perfect for cooking.
Synonyms
A fish found near Caribbean coral reefs that makes grunting sounds
A small tropical fish with yellow stripes that makes low sounds by grinding its throat teeth
A group of sea fish called grunts that live near reefs in warm seas
A group of fish called grunts that live near coral reefs
A group of sea fish like grunts found along the coasts of the Americas
A family of fish that live in warm seas and make a grunting sound
A group of fish that make grunting sounds and live in warm seas often on reefs
Compounds
A small tropical fish with yellow stripes that makes low sounds by grinding its throat teeth
Surface Forms
Etymology
Grunt for the fish comes from the fish making a short, low noise when it is caught, and people called that noise a 'grunt'. So the fish is named grunt because of the sound it makes.