| 单词 | grunt |
| 释义 | grunt (once / 598 pages) 1vn 2n 3n If your younger brother is particularly grouchy, he might simply grunt in answer to your question about whose turn it is to take out the garbage. A grunt is a short, deep sound. If you think about the noise a pig makes, you'll have a good idea of what a grunt sounds like. It's an animal-like sound that people make when they're inarticulate, angry, sullen, or lazy — or sometimes if they're hurt or afraid. Pigs and other animals grunt too, no matter what their moods may be. The Old English root word, grunnettan, most likely came from the sound of a grunt. WORD FAMILYgrunt: grunted, grunter, grunting, grunts+/grunter: grunters USAGE EXAMPLESWith gangly limbs, big, expressive eyes and an entire vocabulary’s worth of colorful grunts and groans at her disposal, she’s equally good at nonverbal comedy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 31, 2016) A grunt and a gruff acceptance usually followed. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) She practically shouts and grunts the opening number. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1v issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise He grunted his reluctant approval Hyper emit, let loose, let out, utter express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words) 2n the short low gruff noise of the kind made by hogs 2Syn|Hyper oink noise sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound) n an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker 3infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts he went from grunt to chairman in six years Hyper unskilled person a person who lacks technical training n medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter grunting sounds when caught Hypo|Hyper Haemulon album, margate a grunt with a red mouth that is found from Florida to Brazil Haemulon macrostomum, Spanish grunta kind of grunt Haemulon aurolineatum, tomtatefound off the West Indies and Florida Haemulon malanurum, cottonwickof warm Atlantic waters Haemulon parra, sailor's-choice, sailors choicea grunt found from Florida to Brazil and Gulf of Mexico Anisotremus virginicus, pork-fish, porkfishblack and gold grunt found from Bermuda to Caribbean to Brazil Anisotremus surinamensis, black margate, pompondusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward Orthopristis chrysopterus, hogfish, pigfishfound from Long Island southward percoid, percoid fish, percoidean any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes |
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