grunt
Significado (Inglês)
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- A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
- The snorting cry of a pig.
- Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
- A person who does ordinary and boring work.
- (slang) An infantry soldier.
- (slang) The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable.
- A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt.
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Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ɡɹʌnt/
Etimologia (Inglês)
In summary
From Middle English grunten, from Old English grunnettan (“to grunt”), from Proto-West Germanic *grunnattjan, from Proto-Germanic *grunnatjaną (“to grunt”), frequentative of Proto-Germanic *grunnōną (“to grunt”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrun- (“to shout”). Cognate with German grunzen (“to grunt”), Danish grynte (“to grunt”). The noun senses are all instances of zero derivation from the verb.
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