grunter
noun/ˈɡɹʌntə/
Etymology From grunt + -er.
1
One who grunts.
- 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.2007 December 19, Linda Pearce, “Tennis grunters told to stop the racket”, in The Age:
2
Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
3
Slang A pig.
- We did but keep you surety for our son, / If this be he, — or a draggled mawkin, thou, / That tends her bristled grunters in the sludge[.]1849, Tennyson, Poems, volume 2, page 224:
- A pig fight on board ship has always amused me very much: stand on the bridge, and look down into the crowded pen of grunters […]1875, W. R. Ancketill, The Adventures of Mick Callighin, M.P.:
4
Dated A hook used in lifting a crucible.
- Synonyms
- tiger perch
- Derived terms
25 terms
half a grunter, 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