grunt

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
    — The stranger, with a comfortable kind of grunt over his pipe, put his legs up on the settle that he had to himself.
  2. The snorting cry of a pig.
  3. Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
  4. A person who does ordinary and boring work.
  5. An infantry soldier. US,slang
    — The poges stare at the grunts as though the grunts were Hell's Angels at the ballet.
  6. The amount of power of which a vehicle is capable. slang
    — The engine might not possess quite as much grunt as the later 24v six, but it delivers invigorating performance […]
  7. A dessert of steamed berries and dough, usually blueberries; blueberry grunt. Canada,US
动词 v.
  1. To make a grunt or grunts. intransitive
    — to grunt and sweat under a weary life
  2. To make a grunt or grunts. intransitive
  3. To break wind; to fart. UK,intransitive,slang
    — Who just grunted?

词形变化

grunts plural grunts present,singular,third-person grunting participle,present grunted participle,past grunted past

词汇关系

衍生词
death grunt grungy grunt boy grunt-horn grunt level grunt-level gruntlike gruntling gruntometer gruntspeak gruntulous grunt work Margaret grunt margate grunt grunter

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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