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▪ I. gruntling, n.|ˈgrʌntlɪŋ|
[f. grunt v. + -ling.]
A little grunter, a young pig.
1686Bk. Boys & Girls 32 (Halliw.) But come, my gruntling, when thou art full fed, Forth to the butchers stall thou must be led. 1780Gentl. Mag. Apr. 193/2 The good fruit for me, the mean for my slave, The worst you design my gruntlings shall have. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIII. 90 The..gambols of a litter of sucking gruntlings. 1834Beckford Italy II. 134 Calves, turkeys, and gruntlings, which had long been fattening..for this solemn occasion.
▪ II. gruntling, vbl. n.|ˈgrʌntlɪŋ|
[f. gruntle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb gruntle.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 327 He vttereth a voice like the gruntling of a Swine. 1611Middleton Roaring Girl v. i. Wks. 1885 IV. 130 The gruntling of five hundred hogs coming from Rumford market. 1819W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd (1827) 55 Sae what wi' gruntlin', what wi' squealin', The causey-stanes were maist set reelin'. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 89 Don't make a hoggish gruntling as you drink. 1834Beckford Italy II. 173 After a deal of adulatory complimentation..for which they got nothing in return but rebuffs and gruntling.
▪ III. gruntling, ppl. a.|ˈgrʌntlɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That gruntles.
15..tr. Martial iii. lviii. 158 (MS.) The gruntling swine follow the house-wife's feete. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 156 The gruntling clamour or cry of hogs. 1679Earl of Rochester Epigr. Ld. All-pride 12 in Roxb. Ballads (1883) IV. 567 So Swine for nasty meat to dunghills run, And toss their gruntling Snouts up when they've done. 1896Crockett Grey Man xii. 86 Nothing loath to get away from gruntling horror on the hill-top. |