grunt /ˈgrʌnt/
 (vi.)作呼嚕聲(vt.)咕噥呼嚕聲,咕噥


 Grunt v. t. [imp. & p. p. Grunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Grunting.]  To make a deep, short noise, as a hog; to utter a short groan or a deep guttural sound.
 Who would fardels bear,
 To grunt and sweat under a weary life.   --Shak.
 Grunting ox Zool., the yak.


 Grunt n.
 1. A deep, guttural sound, as of a hog.
 2. Zool. Any one of several species of American food fishes, of the genus Haemulon, allied to the snappers, as, the black grunt (Haemulon  Plumieri), and the redmouth grunt  (Haemulon aurolineatus), of the Southern United States; -- also applied to allied species of the genera Pomadasys, Orthopristis, and Pristopoma. Called also pigfish, squirrel fish, and grunter; -- so called from the noise it makes when taken.

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 grunt
      n 1: the short low gruff noise of the kind made by pigs
      2: an unskilled or low-ranking soldier or other worker;
         "infantrymen in Vietnam were called grunts"; "he went from
         grunt to chairman in six years"
      3: medium-sized tropical marine food fishes that utter a
         grunting sound when caught
      v : issue a grunting, low, animal-like noise; "He grunted his
          reluctant approval"