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Grunt vs Grunty - What's the difference?

grunt | grunty |

As a noun grunt

is a short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.

As a verb grunt

is to make a grunt or grunts.

As an adjective grunty is

making grunting sounds.

grunt

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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.)

    • Derived terms

    * grunt boy * grunt work

    Verb

    (en verb) * Frequentative: gruntle
  • To make a grunt or grunts.
  • * Shakespeare
  • To make a grunt or grunts.
  • To break wind; to fart.

    • References

    ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Adjective

    (head)
    • ----

    grunty

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Making grunting sounds.
  • * 1996 , Robert Amerson, From the Hidewood: memories of a Dakota neighborhood (page 75)
    • They let the hog loose, and the squeal subsided into a grunty moaning as it wandered erratically, the red draining pink into the snow around the yard.
  • Resembling grunt work; repetitive, mindless, unrewarding.