Grouch vs Grunt - What's the difference?
grouch | grunt |
A complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor.
*1919 , , Herbert Jenkins, 1956, p 20
One who is grumpy or irritable.
*I don't feel like hanging around with that grouch .
To be grumpy or irritable; to complain.
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.
(label) An infantry soldier. (From the verb, just like all the other senses.)
To make a grunt or grunts.
* Shakespeare
To make a grunt or grunts.
To break wind; to fart.
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As nouns the difference between grouch and grunt
is that grouch is a complaint, a grumble, a fit of ill-humor while grunt is a short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.As verbs the difference between grouch and grunt
is that grouch is to be grumpy or irritable; to complain while grunt is to make a grunt or grunts.grouch
English
Noun
(grouches)- But today he had noticed from the moment he had got out of bed that something was amiss with the world. Either he was in the grip of some divine discontent due to the highly developed condition of his soul, or else he had a grouch .
Verb
- He spent all his time grouching about the problem instead of fixing it.