Grunt vs. Oink

Gruntnoun

A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.

Oinkinterjection

Representing the sound made by a pig.

Gruntnoun

The snorting cry of a pig.

Oinkinterjection

Drawing attention to male chauvinism (from the term male chauvinist pig).

Gruntnoun

Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.

Oinknoun

The sound made by a pig, or an imitation thereof.

‘The protesters replied to the police officers' demands with a chorus of oinks.’;

Gruntnoun

A person who does ordinary and boring work.

Oinkverb

(intransitive) Of a pig or in imitation thereof, to make its characteristic sound.

‘The hogs oinked happily in their pen as the farmer poured slop in their feeding trough.’;

Gruntnoun

An infantry soldier.

Oinkverb

utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs

Gruntnoun

(slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.

Gruntnoun

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

Gruntverb

To make a grunt or grunts.

Gruntverb

To make a grunt or grunts.

Gruntverb

To break wind; to fart.

‘Who just grunted?’;

Gruntverb

To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.

‘Who would fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life.’;

Gruntnoun

A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.

Gruntnoun

Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Hæmulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (A. Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt (H. aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; - also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; - so called from the noise it makes when taken.

Gruntnoun

A U. S. infantryman; - used especially of those fighting in the war in Vietnam.

Gruntnoun

the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs

Gruntnoun

an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker;

‘infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts’; ‘he went from grunt to chairman in six years’;

Gruntnoun

medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a grunting sound when caught

Gruntverb

issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise;

‘He grunted his reluctant approval’;