i Register
In some senses, grunter is marked as slang, dated. Watch for register when choosing this word.
noun
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.
Any of a group of fish of the family Terapontidae, which make a grunting sound when caught.
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[.]
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 […]
A hook used in lifting a crucible.