grunter

English

Etymology

grunt +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɡɽʌntə/
  • Rhymes: -ʌntə(r)

Noun

grunter (plural grunters)

  1. One who grunts.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Tennyson
      Bristled grunters.
    • 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. (dated, brass founding) A hook used in lifting a crucible.

Synonyms

Derived terms
The fish
  • Adamson's grunter
  • barred grunter
  • black-blotch grunter
  • Drysdale grunter
  • fortescue grunter
  • Gilbert's grunter
  • Greenway's grunter
  • Jamur Lake grunter
  • Kimberley grunter
  • lake grunter
  • large-scale grunter
  • leathery grunter
  • long-nosed sooty grunter
  • Lorentz's grunter
  • mountain grunter
  • Raymond's grunter
  • Röemer's grunter
  • sepik grunter
  • silver grunter
  • small-headed grunter
  • sooty grunter
  • tapiroid grunter
  • threespot grunter
  • tiger grunter
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